guillotine

Example Sentences

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“Consolidation now hangs over the film industry like a guillotine, with job losses likely and the future of the theatrical movie-going experience in question,” Lauzen wrote in her report.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026

For the seventh time in a row in tournaments where a guillotine falls, Smith had failed to survive the cut.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

The Sept. 1 protest had “little to no energy,” according to an internal Portland police summary, before federal officers dispersed the crowd to collect a prop guillotine that had been brought.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2025

“It’s not like the guillotine is coming out,” said Roberts, the retired banker, who spoke via Zoom from a vacation in Paris.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

For a long time I believed—and I don’t know why—that to get to the guillotine you had to climb stairs onto a scaffold.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus