gargoyle
Example Sentences
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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
Kimbrough also lent his voice to a gargoyle named Victor in Disney’s animated film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2023
Earlier this week, several Santa hats appeared on statues and a gargoyle on St John's College in stunt later blamed on "rascal students".
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2021
It’s a live-action cartoon with rat-a-tat guns and laughs, and gargoyle villains right out of Dick Tracy.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2020
Celaena’s warning cry was carried away by the wind as Grave set about sawing Nox’s rope from its tether on the gargoyle.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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