guillotined
- past participle of guillotine.
- past tense form of guillotine.
Example Sentences
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Because of this mediocre king, who clung so desperately to the fantasies of absolutism that he was later overthrown and guillotined by his own people, the American experiment with republican government was able to commence.
From Slate ● May 30, 2025
The French have maintained a love-hate relationship with kings ever since they guillotined King Louis XVI in 1793.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
It guillotined the notion that great cuisine was necessarily French in its fundamentals.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
Marie Antoinette sent the jewellery away for safekeeping before she was guillotined during the French revolution.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2021
That was Rahel being Sydney Carton being Charles Darnay, as he stood on the steps, waiting to be guillotined, in the Classics Illustrated comic’s version of A Tale of Two Cities.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
