How to Use guillotine in a Sentence

guillotine

noun

• The nuns went to the guillotine singing the Ave Maris Stella.
  — Longreads, 17 Apr. 2018
• The year is 1794, and a guillotine is on its way to the island of Guadeloupe.
  — Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books, 1 Feb. 2024
• Miocic looks for a guillotine in the process but gives it up.
  — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• Once on the ground, Figueiredo tried to lock up a guillotine but ran out of time.
  — Danny Segura, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2022
• Keep it safe with this bagel guillotine that'll give you a swift, even slice.
  — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2019
• There are a few Democrats who see the lines lengthening at the guillotine and wish to duck out.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
• The sound when the guillotine falls and a severed head goes bouncing — thump, thump, thump.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• The Moff holds his Darksaber above Grogu’s head like a guillotine.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2020
• Simply lift the blade, pop the bagel inside, and lower the guillotine.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• Matthews tries again in the final minute and Akman attempts a guillotine choke at the close.
  — Todd Martin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2019
• Pettis looks for the finish with a guillotine choke but doesn’t get it.
  — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 8 July 2018
• Welcome to the era where the screen is king, and analog buttons are facing the guillotine.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2021
• Maine is shaped like a guillotine blade, pitched a few degrees toward the ocean.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 20 June 2018
• Matthews grabs a guillotine choke but Jingliang escapes it by gouging Matthews right in the eye.
  — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• This is the kind of thing that makes people post memes of fake Ikea manuals for flat-pack guillotines in the comments.
  — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 6 May 2020
• Rockhold briefly looks for a guillotine choke but doesn’t get it.
  — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
• Suser used his wrestling background to take Glossner to the ground and lock in a guillotine choke for the win 1:37 into the first round.
  — Kevin Richardson, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2022
• This sleek, black guillotine-style slicer makes swift work of your bagels safely.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• Check out the guillotine in the Musée des Arches, the only one in North America (it was used just once, in 1889).
  — Karen Burshtein, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2017
• Hope lies on the three stars, while the guillotine hovers over the head of manager Unai Emery.
  — Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• There are three forms of declawing: through a guillotine clipper that slips over the entire first part of the toe, a scalpel blade and a laser.
  — Marissa Plescia, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• The rear door of the aircraft opens and, when the green light appears, the loadmaster slices the one restraining strap with a guillotine knife.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2018
• Jackson hurts Punk with a punch but Punk looks for a standing guillotine.
  — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
• Ivanov pulls Tuivasa down late and looks for a guillotine choke before the round ends.
  — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
• In this way Maigret is able to justify putting them in prison or sending them to the guillotine.
  — Vince Passaro, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• From above, a worker released the metal door, which dropped like a guillotine.
  — Jason Florio, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
• But the door did little to muffle the clanging of workers chiseling granite and the boom of the guillotine.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• Of course, the guillotine alone accounted for $500 of that total.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2020
• Then Lenin’s 1917 guillotine dropped on the aristocracy like a cleaver on a sturgeon full of caviar.
  — Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 2 Aug. 2019
• Ivanov attacks the neck with a guillotine but Tuivasa gets his head out.
  — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 8 June 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024