Sample Sentences forguillotine (editor-reviewed)
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During the French Revolution, the guillotine was used as a method of execution for those who were condemned to death.guillotine = a device used to behead people
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The guillotine is often associated with the Reign of Terror, a period of extreme violence and political turmoil during the French Revolution.
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It was the first time Franz had ever seen a guillotine, (source)guillotine = a device used to behead people executed by the state
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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. (source)guillotine = a device used to behead people who are to be executed by the state
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And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. (source)guillotine = a device used to behead people executed by the state
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"Oh," said Sofia, bringing the topic to a close with the efficiency of the guillotine.† (source)
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And a court date hanging over my head like a guillotine blade.† (source)
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That was Rahel being Sydney Carton being Charles Darnay, as he stood on the steps, waiting to be guillotined, in the Classics Illustrated comic's version of A Tale of Two Cities.† (source)
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"Ludovico Indian," he said gently, but firmly, "since its beginning the world has seen empires, theocracies, slave states, anarchy, feudalism, capitalism, revolutionary states, and everything else you can think of, and no matter what the variation, the bloodstained stakes, guillotines, and killing grounds remain."† (source)
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LEWIS—(tipsily) Well, now that our little Robespierre has got the daily bit of guillotining off his chest, tell me more about your doctor friend, Ed. He strikes me as the only bloody sensible medico I ever heard of.† (source)
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And they were all set for the guillotine, right?† (source)
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We learn that Luther had a hot temper and said such and such things; we learn that Rousseau was suspicious and wrote such and such books; but we do not learn why after the Reformation the peoples massacred one another, nor why during the French Revolution they guillotined one another.† (source)
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A million folk ran toting cannons, sharpening guillotines; Chinese, four abreast, marched on forever.† (source)
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My voice rises, and Madame Guillotine jerks her head up from across the room.† (source)
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Afternoons, she dreaded the relentless downsweep of the hour hand, which at five guillotined her day.† (source)
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Mr. Patch-Withers' face was reaching a brilliant shade, and his wife's head fell as though before the guillotine.† (source)
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