PILLORY in a Sentence

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As the sacred edifice was too much thronged to admit another auditor, she took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory.

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 Meanings and Examples of PILLORY
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pillory
 n.  a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn
 v.  punish by putting in a pillory
Classic Sentence:
1  Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
2  As the sacred edifice was too much thronged to admit another auditor, she took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
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