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

MacBird! by Barbara Garson has been awaited with all the fierce anticipatory noises surrounding a tumbrel arriving at the guillotine.

From Time Magazine Archive

What she did, of course, was assume her "riding in the tumbrel" stance�shoulders square, head high, smile in place.

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