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firing squad
noun as in soldiers ordered to shoot
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Example Sentences
At the age of 35 he was shot by a firing squad in January 1961, with the tacit backing of Belgium.
Tortured and accused of bizarre espionage plots, he was ultimately executed by firing squad.
Donald Trump is rebutting the “fascist” charge in the final days of the campaign by publicly fantasizing about one of his leading critics facing what sounds an awful lot like a military firing squad.
Inmates in South Carolina are allowed to choose whether they want to die by lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad.
Other works include The Execution of Christ, a statue depicting Jesus facing down a firing squad of Maos, and Miss Mao, a collection of statues of Mao with large breasts and protruding noses.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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