tumbrel

How To Use tumbrel In A Sentence

• As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep.
• As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey.
• The sound of the wooden tumbrel on a cobbled street was south of the Common now, the smell of rain already coming in through the windows. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
• And what better way is there to insult the scombroid landlord (resembling a mackerel) or that tumbrel of a brother-in-law (a person who is drunk to the point of vomiting) than by calling him by his rightful name? Depraved and Insulting English « Books « Literacy News
• Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection, seventy-eight and an invalid, having been thrown roughly to the pavement from the tumbrel, was heard to speak words of forgiveness and encouragement to her tormentor. 27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm.
• The doyen of modern Dickens studies, Michael Slater, envisaged him in "Charles Dickens" 2009 as the kind of writer whose every private experience is hitched to the lurching tumbrel of his creative imagination. Snapshots of 'Boz'
• Thunder rolled out long and rough as a wooden-wheeled, ox-drawn tumbrel. A DARKENING STAIN
• I think a tumbrel remark is either one you make in a tumbrel on your way to the guillotine cause a tumbrel is the wagon that carried French aristocrats to the chopping block or it's the type of remark that could lead to people wanting to put you in a tumbrel, as in "let them eat cake. Christopher Hitchens "can tell the difference between a true tumbrel remark and a false one."
• Spelling has been guillotined by tabloids and others for a tumbrel of offenses — her nose job, her feud with her mother, her breast-augmentation surgery, her acting on Beverly Hills, 90210, her appearances with her husband on the reality show Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. 2009 October 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews
• Next to be hauled out of the tumbrel and up to the guillotine: Kendra Chantelle, Ashthon Jones, and Karen Rodriguez. 'American Idol' 2011: Lucky 13 [Updated w/ Poll]