defenestration

How To Use defenestration In A Sentence

• Yet the company also tipped itself into a corruption scandal that involves its two most recent chief executives and led to the defenestration of another senior manager. Times, Sunday Times
• Instead, more than 22 years since her defenestration, Thatcher's brand of neo-liberalism is the unshakeable paradigm for our economy and politics.
• Historically, the word defenestration was used to refer to an act of political dissent. Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » Annie McRantypants
• What, we wonder, does he make of a flurry of recent articles calling for his defenestration?
• Folks, it's just not a complete movie without at least one good defenestration.
• In the Old Town Square the town hall dates back to 1338 and windows all over the city were used for the purpose of throwing political opponents to their deaths, an act known as defenestration.
• I stress I know nothing about the woman herself, but the background to his defenestration – hate mail from pro-life and animal cruelty groups, frenzied character assassinations from the ghastly Cristina Odone, and an unspeakably unpleasant piece of twit-gloating from the even ghastlier Nadine Dorries soon afterwards – is inescapable. Arise, geeks
• The alternative on offer was to jump through a window, which literate readers will know as defenestration, a popular way of inviting kings to commit suicide in 17th century Europe.
• I didn’t know there was a word defenestration, or that it actually meant “the act of throwing something out of a window.” Minimalist Christmas Update « knitnut.net
• This is never fun, even for fans that have spent months clamoring for the defenestration of some coach or GM or other.