Example sentences for: guillotine

How can you use “guillotine” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Salle des Girondins displays a guillotine blade, the crucifix to which Marie-Antoinette prayed, and the lock used on Robespierre’s cell.

  • "To the guillotine."

  • A guillotine replaced the king’s statue and was used to behead Louis XVI and more than 1,000 other victims.

  • Experts on French criminal syntax say that Maître-Crèche was lucky that he didn't use the future anterior tense, which is punishable by the guillotine.

  • Despite efforts to curry favor with the revolutionaries, like calling himself Philippe Egalité (equality), the duke ended up on the guillotine with the rest of the family.


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