gallows

Example Sentences

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As Ralph Waldo Emerson saw it, Brown’s death on the scaffold turned him into a “new Saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

Newsrooms being breeding grounds for gallows humor, most also understand that futility is a terrific comedy catalyst.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

These songs tap into the bottomless well that Mexicans have for gallows humor.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025

“I meant it as a bit of gallows humor, but he answered by essentially saying, Actually, sort of,” Gluck, a journalist, writes in his forthcoming memoir, An Exercise in Uncertainty.

From Slate • May 2, 2025

I think I catch a flash of movement beneath the gallows, but before I can look again, I'm on the platform beside Helene.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir