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

The bleeding edge of the Enlightenment’s democratic revolution, in this telling, wasn’t to be found in a Parisian guillotine but rather in the fragile consensus forged over long meetings on a distant island.

From Los Angeles Times

“Danton’s Death” culminates with the appearance, center stage, of a gold-rimmed guillotine that is almost as high as the walls around it.

From New York Times