hangman
Example Sentences
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Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times • Apr. 10, 2023
Organizers tried getting students who might feel bashful online to at least try a game of hangman or charades.
From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2021
The Good Lord Bird opens with Brown climbing a scaffold and, right before the hangman puts a hood over his head, saying, “What a beautiful country.”
From Slate • Oct. 4, 2020
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 paper was covered in her work trying to decode it, which looked like a bunch of unfinished hangman games minus the hanging men.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.