Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deathsman
Noun
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And her teachers didn’t mention the woman who slipped the executioner’s noose and freed New England?—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026 -
Amnesty International says China is the world's lead executioner, believed to sentence and put to death thousands of people annually.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The murderer, on a road trip from Iowa, had been stranded in Wayne County after hitting an elk and totaling his truck.—
Stephen Trimble,
Denver Post,
8 Apr. 2026
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But what starts as a hunt for a murderer escalates into an undercover operation to foil a Far-Right bomb plot in the heart of London.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2026
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Two days before his death, Epstein made Indyke a co-executor of his estate, along with Kahn, the accountant.—
Ava Berger,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2026
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King will produce along with John Branca and John McClain, who are the co-executors of the Michael Jackson estate.—
Kelsie Gibson,
PEOPLE,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Just after the American Civil War, people in Pennsylvania were still following the ancient Roman polymath Pliny’s advice to wrap their aching heads with a piece of a hangman’s noose.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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The classic effigy comes with a free hangman’s noose or lasso.—
Jack Handey,
New Yorker,
17 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Their efforts lead them in the season’s last two episodes to Paris, where Frank was planning to celebrate his 80th birthday with his children — only for him to be gunned down in a hotel lobby by an assassin who had been sent to kill Teddy for a deal gone wrong.—
Max Gao,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2026
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Neither of these two is necessarily a lip-sync assassin.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Two other men, subjects of excellent Holbein drawings in the show, would keep appointments with the headsman.—
Peter Schjeldahl,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2022
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Even if your reality is the headsman’s block!—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2021
Noun
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As the notorious Gilgo Beach serial killer admitted to the torture and murders of eight women throughout Long Island, New York, this week, Rex Heuermann also made an unlikely decision that could help investigators gain insight into his nearly two decades of violence.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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Rex Heuermann, the man known as the Gilgo Beach killer, admitted to killing eight women over a span of decades, and the FBI is now looking into what motivated the 62-year-old to carry out his crimes to help capture other criminals in the future.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Deathsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathsman. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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