hangmen
- plural of hangman.
Example Sentences
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“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2022
Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2015
The two hangmen are often called out to Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cyprus, British Honduras.
From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2014
However, India is known for its bureaucratic delays, and if the country lacks hangmen, it does not lack rules and protocols governing hanging.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2011
You need religion and courts and hangmen and screws and all the rest of it.
From The Night of the Long Knives by Finlay, Virgil
