The coastal cliffs were dotted with old gibbets that swung in the salt wind, a grim warning to smugglers.

My aunt has always been a flibberty-gibbet, flitting from topic to topic without ever listening.

The town meeting was derailed by a group of flibberty-gibbets who couldn't stop bickering over trivialities.

The fog rolled over the moor, revealing a gibbetlike silhouette against the moon.