Sample sentences for GUILLOTINE

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Definition

a device used to behead people who are to be executed by the state (most associated with the French Revolution); or executing someone in such a manner

She followed the sounds and, coming to the end of a shallow passage, found Dodge, Bibwit, Hatter, General Doppelganger, the white knight, and the rook kneeling with their hands fastened behind them, their heads locked in an enormous guillotine.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

guillotine = a device used to behead people who are to be executed by the state

Alyss again imagined wads of the sticky substance shooting from her sleeves, gumming up the guillotine's works and keeping its blade from falling.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

guillotine = a device used to behead people who are to be executed by the state

There were a dozen gentlemen there in morning coats and gowns, and a newly erected guillotine.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
They believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
What had struck me at the time was the neat appearance of the guillotine; its shining surfaces and finish reminded me of some laboratory instrument.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger
Still, they will not guillotine her.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
I was waiting for it to happen, the way a condemned man must wait that last hundredth of a second for the guillotine to fall.
Ernest J. Gaines -- A Lesson Before Dying
It looked like a walk to mount either a pedestal or a guillotine.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Another had a guillotine.
Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
At Lyon, where the guillotine wasthought too slow a means of dispensing with antirevolutionaries, hundreds were mown down by cannon fire.
David McCullough -- John Adams
Without a moment's hesitation, she lifted the heavy blade above her head and— The cleaver froze, poised like a guillotine, above the unsuspecting man.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
The captain bowed again, which made him look a little too much like a guillotine.
Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
Then I lifted my right hand with the razor and let it drop of its own weight, like a guillotine, onto the calf of my leg.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
His neck, exposed as if in, preparation for the guillotine, was sprinkled with Pop-Tarts crumbs.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
What this folk needed, then, was a Reign of Terror and a guillotine, and I was the wrong man for them.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
And so, covered with his brothers' kisses, Richard is dragged on to the scaffold, and led to the guillotine.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
"I'm afraid, after all, you won't have the pleasure of going gracefully to the guillotine here just now," Mr. Touchett went on.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
And get that guillotine away from my neck while you're waving your hands like that.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
The one thing Matron allowed her to do without supervision was to use the foreskin guillotine.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

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