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How to use defenestration in a sentence

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Several other revelations have begun to seep out in the wake of O'Brien's forced defenestration.
In France an 1860 shooting and an 1886 defenestration inspired episodes in Emile Zola's railway novel La Bete humaine.
Make it a rule that anyone, interviewer or interviewee, who uses that word will be subject to immediate defenestration.
This is never fun, even for fans that have spent months clamoring for the defenestration of some coach or GM or other.
What, we wonder, does he make of a flurry of recent articles calling for his defenestration?
To make the situation more interesting, King Wenceslas IV had an apoplectic fit and died of a heart attack upon learning of the defenestration.
The announcement, hurried out after the Stock Exchange had closed, and most of the City had gone home, speaks of a defenestration.
Folks, it's just not a complete movie without at least one good defenestration.
Geddie, for his part, fought his defenestration but ultimately accepted defeat.
His defenestration was coldly abrupt, and in his place, the Football Association resurrected a veteran manager and former England star for seven games.
Instead, more than 22 years since her defenestration, Thatcher's brand of neo-liberalism is the unshakeable paradigm for our economy and politics.
There are other terrible conclusions — defenestration, decapitation, disembowelment — but they have a certain élan, as in Jacobean tragedy.
Windows carry an added significance in Prague, given the history of defenestration in that city.
Indeed, the sense that he has seen off defenestration may explain his untypically perky mood, which was visible even before his party's recent mini-recovery in the polls.
There were dark nights for Rudd after his defenestration but it remained a constant comfort that he had never been rejected by the Australian people.
But the 2003 invasion of Iraq looks more like the defenestration of Prague moment, setting the stage as it did for the internecine fighting between the Shia and Sunni communities of the region.
Protection against defenestration and migration of objects.
After the famous defenestration of two Habsburg councillors from a window of the Prague Castle on 23 May 1618, the Czechs lost their rights and identity through forced Catholicization and Germanization.
The most common example is drunk driving, but drinking may also lead to falls, fights, and even defenestration.
The proverbial defenestration of the baby with the bath water illustrates the problem.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Slavata immediately resolved on refuting this work, written by the originator of the defenestration.
Many of the stormy meetings of the Bohemian nobles that preceded the defenestration of 1618 were held here.
A tablet stating that the defenestration had been planned here was placed on this house, but almost immediately removed.
The defenestration, in fact, only precipitated a conflict that was in any case inevitable.
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