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
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
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
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
Five minutes later he was hurtling toward a stone gargoyle standing halfway along an empty corridor.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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