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How to use tumbrel in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tumbrel? Here are some examples.

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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.
In coats and ties, the University of Denver men's lacrosse team caught the five-o'clock tumbrel to the Carrier Dome.
As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and they were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey.
Her husband, Louis XVI, who lost his title when the monarchy was abolished, had been guillotined nine months earlier, though he was spared the indignity of riding in a tumbrel with bound hands.
Why, then, was Messier the one carted off in a tumbrel?
Examples from Classical Literature
Picture to yourself a tumbrel of prisoners on their way to Lons-le-Saulnier.
Monseigneur de Belzunce sat upon the seat of the tumbrel laden with corpses, driven by a convict stained with every crime.
They had the right to erect gallows, pillory and tumbrel for the punishment of malefactors.
At Wootton Bassett there was a tumbrel, which, until within the last few years, was perfect.
When the ducking was accomplished, the tumbrel was drawn out of the water by the ropes.
A man condemned to death is listening to his confessor in the tumbrel.
Sometimes, when placed on a tumbrel, it was used for ducking.
When she hears an angry mob approaching, she looks down to see her husband in the tumbrel taking him to the guillotine.
Millers, when they stole corn, were chastised by the tumbrel.
Where would you most likely be headed if you were in a tumbrel during the French revolution?
I only thought of Marie Antoinette after the tumbrel went by.
The borough accounts also refer to it as a gumstool or a tumbrel, and they record frequent repairs to the device throughout the 17th and 18th century.
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