Examples of 'guillotine' in a sentence

Meaning of "guillotine"

Guillotine is a noun that refers to a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people. It can also refer to a device with a fast-moving blade used to cut materials
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  • A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
  • A device or machine with a cutting blade.
  • An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
  • A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.

How to use "guillotine" in a sentence

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Guillotine loss of tip without loss of bone.
They will not guillotine you for it.
The guillotine would be the right answer.
I feel as though the guillotine is about to drop.
The guillotine that beheaded marie antoinette.
It was the year the guillotine was first used.
Guillotine is used for the first time.
I could feel the guillotine was ready to fall.
Guillotine means unfair charges towards you.
Volunteering for the guillotine is a craven gesture.
The guillotine was used as one method of execution.
She died at the guillotine moments later.
Guillotine door of an animal trap that closes.
Burkman won via guillotine choke submission.
She still finished under the guillotine.

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Make sure the guillotine is in working condition.
I will not take him to the guillotine.
Time to guillotine a few more headless relationships.
They were executed by guillotine that same day.
Bloodthirsty monster who terrorized by the guillotine.
Even the guillotine could not stop me.
Powell is going up for the guillotine early here.
Maybe the guillotine should be used on him.
You will end up under the guillotine.
Have it at the guillotine for me this afternoon.
Or perhaps some sort of small bird guillotine.
Give him the guillotine tomorrow morning.
You have saved us from the guillotine.
I risked the guillotine in a business like that.
He is sentenced to death by the guillotine for murder.
We use the guillotine in this country.
Then they took him to the guillotine.
Use a guillotine if several cuts are required.
The magician shows a guillotine to the audience.
Until they get an executioner and a guillotine.
I am afraid your guillotine was deliberately sabotaged.
Unless the body was already at the guillotine.
I dreamed my head on the guillotine as the executioner said.
The aristocrats condemned are taken to the guillotine.
I did not set up the guillotine last night.
They are being tried and brought to the guillotine.
The guillotine has gone out of fashion.
Wait till you see my guillotine trick.
The guillotine did not kill off the species.
You will be back on the guillotine in no time.
A guillotine without an executioner is nothing but bits of wood.
We heard them climbing the guillotine steps.
The guillotine was not all good.
You will see him at the guillotine.
The guillotine spares pregnant women.

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