Sentences with 'guillotine'
Example sentences and phrases with the word guillotine and other words derived from it.
• « Louis XVI was executed by guillotine, the newly invented "humane" method of execution favoured by the revolutionary government, and his head exposed to the crowd. »
• « They made extensive use of the guillotine, a new "humane" execution technology named after the doctor who invented it, and their leader was the famous Maximilien Robespierre, whom his followers called "the Incorruptible" for his resolute approach to seeing the Revolution succeed. »
• « The revolutionaries advocated direct representative democracy, dismantled Catholicism, replaced that religion with a new philosophy known as the Cult of the Supreme Being, renamed the months of the year and relentlessly employed the guillotine against their enemies. »