gargoyle

A host of celebrity judges have to decide whether they’re seeing an elaborate cake or Halloween decor like a jack-o-lantern, a black cat and a gargoyle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025

A former tattooist who left a woman "looking like a gargoyle" after giving her botched face fillers had been posing as a doctor at his aesthetics clinic, a BBC investigation has revealed.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025

His villainy is like a gargoyle — inert and thoroughly grotesque.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

Another modern, and whimsical, touch is the so-called businessman or yuppie gargoyle, depicting a Gothic creature with sideburns and holding a briefcase.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2021

The gargoyle leapt aside at the mention of toffee eclairs, and Harry took the spiral staircase two steps at a time, knocking on the door just as a clock within chimed eight.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

The architect’s mischievous side comes through in countless sketches for his famous gargoyles, which achieve “both anatomical coherence and a sense of demonic vitality.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

But Besson adds his own bizarre flair, including an army of CGI gargoyles that do Dracul’s bidding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

Water was discharged from the roof via gargoyles which were said to crouch in agony under the weight of their load.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023

And then there is the structure itself, with its towering walls of stone, its flying buttresses and its weird populace of gargoyles and grotesques watching the city from on high.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2022

Completed in 1916, Delia Dell Hall boasted countless gargoyles and faces half-hidden in decades of ivy.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett