How To Use Firing squad In A Sentence
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As one character says here, with desperate weariness: ‘We electrocuted him, gassed him, put him in front of a firing squad.’
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The executions will be carried out by a firing squad.
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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
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The firing squad were already aiming their rifles and waiting for the order to shoot.
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Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad on October 12, 1915.
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People like me, who believed the firing squad had been assembled, were left with egg on our faces.
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If rugby were to get nervous, then there would be a queue for the firing squad.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Facing him at the office next day was like facing a firing squad.
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The firing squad were already aiming their rifles and waiting for the order to shoot.
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Many died in front of the firing squad.
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Instead of facing a firing squad, however, they were abandoned in no man's land so that they would be killed by crossfire.
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Those put to death by firing squad included three generals.
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The fusillades of the firing squads (at least one of which López himself directed) roared so often and so ubiquitously that some mistook them for the sound of Brazilian invaders.
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He could face a firing squad if found guilty of the charges.
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We were in a big political debate, firing squad was going, and one of the female judges just kind of butted in and said, "Do you think you ` re pretty?
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Death by firing squad to those who hoard food.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France for espionage for Germany during World War I.
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No one on the firing squad knows whether their gun has a bullet or a blank.
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With the other leaders he was condemned to death by a British court martial, and executed by firing squad on 3 May 1916.
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This done, Woodley handed over to the RSM who brought the firing squad to attention before giving the order for dismissal.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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No officer convicted of plotting against him met his end at the hands of the firing squad.
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A soldier would rather face a firing squad a thousand times over than just once have to look his own colleagues in the eye knowing he had failed them.
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You feel like you're in front of a firing squad.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1923 three prisoners were executed by firing squad.
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We face a firing squad for a crime we did not commit.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was executed by firing squad.
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Billy had heard that one man in each firing squad was customarily given a rifle loaded with blank cartridge.
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In the modern world it is only despotisms which have recourse to the firing squad or the noose.
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To put the failed coup leaders in front of a firing squad would secure the president's legacy as the strongman who crushed the army.
Times, Sunday Times
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When your hero outwits assassins, solves riddles and escapes execution by firing squad, you do, too.
Tintin & Co.
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Murat had looked into the eyes of the firing squad without flinching.
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To put the failed coup leaders in front of a firing squad would secure the president's legacy as the strongman who crushed the army.
Times, Sunday Times
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Billy had heard that one man in each firing squad was customarily given a rifle loaded with blank cartridge.
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It resulted in the death, by firing squad, of hundreds of striking farmhands inspired, in part, by anarchist immigrant rabble-rousers.
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In Egypt, the death penalty is carried out by firing squad or hanging.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sent dozens before firing squads, shocking friends with his mercilessness.
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Due to the youthful inaccuracy of the firing squad, few if any were killed at the first volley.
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A soldier would rather face a firing squad a thousand times over than just once have to look his own colleagues in the eye knowing he had failed them.
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Mooney was sentenced to death by firing squad for his role in smuggling the tea to the North on behalf of Colonel Jackson.
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Death by firing squad to those who hoard food.
Times, Sunday Times
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At four of the locations firing squads were lined up.
Times, Sunday Times
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With that he had walked over to the side of the court yard just to the rear of the firing squad.
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Then the commander of the firing squad went forward and shot each in the forehead.
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A soldier would rather face a firing squad a thousand times over than just once have to look his own colleagues in the eye knowing he had failed them.
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We face a firing squad for a crime we did not commit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The firing squad usually fires at least three shots - at the neck, waist and ankle, he said.
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In the French Resistance it was considered a high honor to face a Nazi firing squad.
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It was almost his turn to go before the firing squad.
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Meanwhile, Switzer faces a firing squad each day.
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Nowadays the only types of execution include gassing, the electric chair, lethal injection, firing squad and hanging.
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He could face a firing squad if found guilty of the charges.
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He did not have a card to play when he went in to face the FA firing squad.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could face a firing squad if found guilty of the charges.
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Billy had heard that one man in each firing squad was customarily given a rifle loaded with blank cartridge.
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In December, Beria was found guilty and sent before a firing squad.
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He was sentenced to execution by firing squad, but given life imprisonment because he had already served 12 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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MEK was formed in opposition to the Shah in the mid-sixties, and before long virtually its entire leadership was arrested and sent to the firing squad.
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In pleading guilty and inviting death by firing squad the narrator is at least making a stand.
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Admiral Byng, by contrast, was shot by firing squad on his own quarterdeck for his incompetence in action against a French fleet which was besieging the British garrison at Port Mahon in Minorca in 1756.
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The person guarding him has his own reasons for not wanting to live and so exchanges jacket and papers with the condemned man and goes before the firing squad in his place.
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His fate, death by firing squad, would hardly seem a cause for celebration.
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On the other hand, we are not a nation that summarily disposes of our criminal population with a firing squad.
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The prisoners were executed by firing squad.
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The moral equivalent is putting a jaywalker before a firing squad.
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Death by firing squad to those who hoard food.
Times, Sunday Times
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Murat had looked into the eyes of the firing squad without flinching.
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In front of the memorial are six trees representing a firing squad.
The Sun
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A soldier would rather face a firing squad a thousand times over than just once have to look his own colleagues in the eye knowing he had failed them.
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You'll stand in front of a firing squad for them if you need to.
The Sun
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He must hope that after clamorous calls for his resignation, he himself is not placed before the PM's firing squad.
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As a firing squad drew near, the terrified prisoners heard a telephone ringing in the camp commandant's office.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was executed by firing squad.
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Other members of the firing squad took over the task of finishing off her husband.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peaceful will be executed by a firing squad for cowardice because he refused to obey an order that sent the rest of his unit to their deaths.
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And once it became clear that he would undergo a hearing, why did Griffin sideline himself with the colorful observation that undergoing Senate confirmation would be "like volunteering to stand in front of a firing squad in the middle of a three-ring circus?
Balkinization
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To put the failed coup leaders in front of a firing squad would secure the president's legacy as the strongman who crushed the army.
Times, Sunday Times
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Defence chiefs were last night under renewed pressure to pardon hundreds of soldiers executed for cowardice during the First World War after it emerged that several officers were spared the firing squad for the same offence.
