hangman
Example Sentences
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When Merv Griffin created “Wheel of Fortune” in 1975 as television’s answer to hangman, it spent its early years on ratings life support.
From New York Times
Actually it was a little bit like a stick figure, like in hangman, but with more details.
From Literature
A petition to spare Freddy from the hangman's noose received more than a million signatures.
From BBC
In his bathroom brooding raptors hooded like hangmen shifted sullenly upon their perches.
From New York Times
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post
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