tumbrel
Example Sentences
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“Mr Thomas the careers man came and he thinks I should do economics,” my diary records in tumbrel dread.
From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2019
Traditionally, of course, it's Marie Antoinette, who must have had souls rattling round in her like distressed aristocrats in a tumbrel.
From The Guardian • Sep. 3, 2010
In it, he brings off an excruciating knock-knock joke in French-en route to his conclusion about the uses of laughter in the gloomy present: "In this age penumbral,/Let the timbrel resound in the tumbrel."
From Time Magazine Archive
It may have seemed droll to cast Judy Holliday as a Peace Corps clown, a lady Jonah anxious to do good out where the East begins, but this musical is as funny as a tumbrel.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was the condemned young aristocrat holding my head high in the tumbrel.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
