NOUN
- a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution
How To Use firing squad In A Sentence
- As one character says here, with desperate weariness: ‘We electrocuted him, gassed him, put him in front of a firing squad.’
- The executions will be carried out by a firing squad.
- The book's longer, second part, called "Eastern Voices," describes the convolutions in Gilmore's court trial, the legal appeals and his successful quest to be executed by firing squad. Literary Tales Of Real-Life Crimes
- The firing squad were already aiming their rifles and waiting for the order to shoot.
- Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad on October 12, 1915.
- People like me, who believed the firing squad had been assembled, were left with egg on our faces.
- If rugby were to get nervous, then there would be a queue for the firing squad. Times, Sunday Times
- 1922 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
- Facing him at the office next day was like facing a firing squad.
- The firing squad were already aiming their rifles and waiting for the order to shoot.
