gas chamber
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gas chamber
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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The gas chamber had been introduced in the United States by the state of Nevada in 1921.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026
In March 2019, Governor Newsom issued an executive order that halted the death penalty in the state and ordered the dismantling of the gas chamber in San Quentin.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2024
They’ve just spent time in the grimmest section of the Holocaust exhibit, where they had to file through brick tunnels into a stark, windowless room that evokes a gas chamber.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2023
During Friday's commemorations, Holocaust survivors wearing hats and scarves in the blue and white stripes of camp uniforms and others laid candles on the ruins of a gas chamber.
From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2023
The gas chamber of the buoy, charged to five atmospheres, is replenished from a steamer fitted with a pump and transport receivers carrying indicating valves, the receivers being charged to ten atmospheres.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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