hangman

Example Sentences

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Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.

From Washington Times • Apr. 10, 2023

A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2019

The show that brands itself as “America’s game,” and perhaps that is fitting because, in essence, it is an awkward marriage of hangman and roulette.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2019

For the sailor and the hangman, it had been indispensable in the past, the narrator declared.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2018

The men in the pub are talking about the terrible state of the world and how in God’s name Hermann Goering escaped the hangman an hour before the hanging.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt