guillotines
- plural of guillotine.
- present tense form of guillotine (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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After drying during a series of slow corkscrews, the new magazine’s edges were chopped smooth by guillotines and emerged through an opening.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
Even news of guillotines, massacres, and growing public hostility to religion did not deter the most hopeful Francophiles, who dismissed such accounts as exaggerations by British propagandists.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2022
“During downturns,” Stern says, “the financial guillotines hit hardest in regions where clusters are weakest.”
From Nature ● May 3, 2016
A reviewer for an English newspaper saw guillotines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2015
"My revolution won't have anything to do with guillotines," the girl laughed back, "and if you really want to have a powerful friend at court, pin your faith on Mr. Tallente."
From Nobody's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
