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

Forget, wrote Brown, "all the Beltway halitosis breathed upon his image...the neo-puritanism of the op-ed tumbrel drivers."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I was the condemned young aristocrat holding my head high in the tumbrel.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly