Collocations for "scaffold"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "scaffold" in context.
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scaffold
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- used to hang [murderers, criminals, prisoners] from scaffolds
- scaffolds were used to hang [murderers]
- taken to the scaffold for [hanging, execution]
- [swinging, dangling, hanging] from the scaffold
- [branded, whipped, humiliated] on the scaffold
- [build, make, erect] a scaffold
- use a scaffold to [support, hold up, sustain, position]
- [supported] by a scaffold
- [stuck, pasted, taped] to the scaffold
- a scaffold [pole, beam, bar]