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"Guillotine" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Charles I of England was executed by guillotine.
Many revolutionaries have been beheaded by the axe of a guillotine.
Antoine Louis invented the guillotine, which was, however, named after Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.
Is the guillotine still used by certain countries?
The guillotine was widely used during the French Revolution.
This window is a guillotine, I'm telling you.
The guillotine may not be perfect but it's the best system we have.
Make sure the guillotine is in working condition.
Monarchs get the guillotine.
In 2019, the United States considered using execution by guillotine for those with death sentences.
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For two-and-twenty years he [Joseph-Ignace Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive [Julius] Cæsar’s.
The right hon. Gentleman is making a great stooshie about time in relation to this Bill, but was it not the case that, when the SNP [Scottish National Party] Scottish Government introduced their continuity Bill in the Scottish Parliament, they operated a ruthless guillotine to prevent proper scrutiny of it? That is the case; they ran a guillotine on that Bill, and there was a very limited amount of time allowed for debate and scrutiny, yet he complains about that happening here.
Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.
Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it.
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