tumbrel

How To Use tumbrel In A Sentence

• Next to be hauled out of the tumbrel and up to the guillotine: Kendra Chantelle, Ashthon Jones, and Karen Rodriguez. 'American Idol' 2011: Lucky 13 [Updated w/ Poll]
• Take, for instance, the following piece of purple prose, full of sentences just begging to hop into the tumbrel and ride to the guillotine. Author! Author! » 2010 » July
• The sound of the wooden tumbrel on a cobbled street was south of the Common now, the smell of rain already coming in through the windows. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
• He was removed from the magistracy after having, in 1800, jumped into the tumbrel taking Sarah Lloyd, a servant girl, to the scaffold, and harangued the crowd about the injustice of the sentence. Index of People
• Thunder rolled out long and rough as a wooden-wheeled, ox-drawn tumbrel. A DARKENING STAIN
• a two-wheeled tumbrel: According to the OED, a tumbrel is a cart constructed so that the body tilts backwards to empty out the load, such as a dung-cart. Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
• There was the whiff of a tumbrel depositing yet another victim before the guillotine in the Place de la Concorde. Welcome to the Show
• As every poll comes out, yours truly cheers the passage of the tumbrel bearing the Howard Government to the guillotine as gleefully as the most ragged and revolutionary tricoteuse.
• As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep.
• Spelling has been guillotined by tabloids and others for a tumbrel of offenses — her nose job, her feud with her mother, her breast-augmentation surgery, her acting on Beverly Hills, 90210, her appearances with her husband on the reality show Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. 2009 October 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews