gargoyle
noun
a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
gargoyled
-
a word derived from
gargoyle.
Example Sentences
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From August, 1969, until that day, the six-story lightly gargoyled Renaissance Revival apartment building with a first-floor brick façade was the New York City headquarters of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
The buttresses of the choir follow the accepted forms of grace and effectiveness, and, while not numerous or remarkable as to size, each springs to a supporting pier gracefully pinnacled and gargoyled.
From The Cathedrals of Northern France by Blanche McManus
Within, you walk the clattering flags of its dim, long aisles; without, you peer aloft to view its gargoyled waterspouts, leering down like nightmares caught in the very act of leering and congealed into stone.
From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Bunions and gout combined to give it a gargoyled effect!
From The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections by Ellen Terry
But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers!
From Hospital Sketches by Robert Swain Peabody
