Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deathsman
Noun
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Three executioners will fire from behind a small opening, positioned approximately 15 feet away.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
22 Feb. 2025 -
One of the film’s episodes depicts a day in the life of an executioner.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The mysterious third murderer involved in the killing of Banquo (Michael Boatman) is revealed here to be one of the Weird Sisters.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Can Greg, a murderer by proxy whose past likely holds other dark secrets, escape what the recording Sarah Catherine Hook’s Piper listens to, also in the premiere, describes as the prison of identity?—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The executor even accused Daniel of framing Brent for a bogus plot to commit mass murder at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York; Brent was detained by police in a holding cell for nearly 24 hours until being released due to lack of evidence.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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According to the Times, the new executors objected to the film after seeing a cut.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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Did Erik Menendez really play hangman with Leslie Abramson in court?—
Jessica Sager,
People.com,
27 Sep. 2024
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The second story is about Eichmann’s prison guard, Haim (Yoav Levi), a Moroccan Jew who takes pains to make sure his charge is unharmed and delivered to the hangman’s noose in as good a shape as possible.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
28 June 2024
Noun
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The pint-sized assassin pulls a gun out of her fuzzy heart throw pillow and gets to work.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
18 Feb. 2025
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Assassin's Creed Shadows continues the everlasting war between noble assassins and shifty templars.—
Jordan Minor,
PCMAG,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Several other leading figures of the period ended their days on the executioner’s block, including the unhappy Comte de Chalais, whose headsman bungled the job and ended up frantically chopping away at his screaming victim with a small hatchet.—
David A. Bell,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Mar. 2012
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Even if your reality is the headsman’s block!—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2021
Noun
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The story follows ex-addict Kirsty, played by Simone McIntyre, who risks her new life by re-entering the brutal world of heroin and prostitution, and unknowingly the stalking grounds of a serial killer, to save her best friend Becky, played by Bear Thompson.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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His characteristically sparse prose only makes this portrait of a necrophiliac serial killer haunting the hill country of eastern Tennessee that much more disturbing: Lester Ballard makes Norman Bates look like Beaver Cleaver.—
M.L. Rio,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Deathsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathsman. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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