5 example sentences using gibbet.
Gibbet used in a sentence
Gibbet in a sentence as a noun
Can we bring back the pirate's gibbet now?
Patrolled by a ragged band of scoundrels all in black who chose the wall over the gibbet, no doubt.
My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed.
Gibbet in a sentence as a verb
They passed corpses hanging on the gibbet and decapitated heads and quartered bodies impaled on stakes on the city walls.
In an ideal world with Nuremberg-like tribunals, the Bush insiders would be swinging from gibbets, while we'd let the Democrats off the hook after a few years in Spandau.
Gibbet definitions
alternative terms for gallows
See also: gallows-tree gallous
hang on an execution instrument
expose to ridicule or public scorn
See also: pillory