guillotine

Example Sentences

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"I am on a four-year walk to the guillotine," says another, anticipating defeat at the next general election.

From BBC

Their reign finished badly: In the French Revolution, King Louis XVI ended up on the guillotine.

From Seattle Times

The symbolism was powerful: It was there where Louis XVI was guillotined 230 years ago.

From Reuters

Teens under 18 would still be generally barred from employment in fields including mining, logging, demolition, and meatpacking, and from operating potentially dangerous machinery and equipment including circular saws, guillotine shears, and punching machines.

From Salon

This prompted Stefano Gogioso, a computer scientist at the University of Oxford, to point out that, “in machine learning, Mondrian tree/forests is used to denote a certain kind of classification performed by guillotine cuts.”

From New York Times