Examples of 'pillory' in a sentence
Meaning of "pillory"
Pillory historically refers to a device used for public humiliation and punishment, consisting of wooden boards with holes for securing a person's head and hands
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- A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
- To put in a pillory.
- To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
- To criticize harshly.
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A pillory for bondage bed or steel cube.
Stand in the pillory for three days.
History has already nailed to a pillory eternal.
Black pillory with light purple touches.
They did not hesitate to set up a pillory against it.
The pillory leads to the gallows.
He is instead sentenced to two hours in the pillory.
Wilbur is held in a pillory in the cellar.
Turn the photo booth into a pillory.
The pillory is related to the stocks.
They locked prisoners inside a pillory barrel.
Red pillory with shades of evolution.
First offenders get three days in the pillory.
Does it pillory the bigotry of ministries of tyranny.
In front of the building is the pillory.
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The gallows and the pillory stood there.
This was often followed by a spell in the stocks or pillory.
The pillory was a symbol of the market rights of the city.
That was the televised pillory.
Do not pillory us for that.
Vera with handcuffs and pillory.
Minuit must endure the pillory and is shamelessly exhibited.
You can visit the church and pillory.
There was a pillory in the square.
Then put a bell on the end of the pillory.
This is where the pillory where the prisoners were executed was located.
In front of it stands the pillory.
In the pillory the head and hands were inserted in these holes.
The three were convicted of sedition and sentenced to the pillory.
The area around the pillory was a popular place of street entertainment.
Lesser criminals were publicly exposed in a pillory erected on the site.
To pillory that poor man with your outrageous slings and arrows.
Last man to stand in pillory.
It is a pillory that only allows a certain number of movements previously fixed upon.
One hour in the pillory.
This column was used as a pillory and disappeared when the church was built.
You have forgotten a poor devil on that infamous pillory.
At the pillory.
Next his body was chopped to pieces which were hung on the pillory.
But perhaps one hour in the pillory and one ear nailed.
The post was a whipping post and the pillar was the pillory.
In the square by the church the stone pillory is decorated with a fishing net.
For that insolence you shall spend another hour on the pillory.
In his square we can still see the pillory in which the murderers were hanged.
The prisoner shall remain for one full hour on the pillory.
This pillory was fitted with new stones that did not belong to its original construction.
They were put in a pillory.
Public pillory list on Berlin restaurants inadmissible.
More serious offenders were whipped or tortured using the corda at this pillory.
One hour in the pillory But perhaps.
