tumbrel

Example Sentences

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If commoners' living standards slip—not relative to the elites, but relative to what they had before—they accept the overtures of the counter-elites and start oiling the axles of their tumbrels.

From Salon

Obama’s failure to go big and to send the tumbrels rolling down Wall Street certainly greased the runway for Donald Trump.

From New York Times

Yet — while reserving the right to change my position should the tumbrel come for me — I’m not sure this is the Khmer Rouge moment that it’s made out to be.

From Washington Post

“Mr Thomas the careers man came and he thinks I should do economics,” my diary records in tumbrel dread.

From The Guardian

They had the right to erect gallows, pillory and tumbrel for the punishment of malefactors.

From Project Gutenberg