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Example sentences for "firing squad"

  • You won't feel so smart when you're facing a firing squad!

  • Well, you can relax; there's no firing squad," Colonel Welsh chuckled.

  • I guess it's a case for a firing squad," judged Billy.

  • Those fellows had picked us out for a firing squad.

  • Since he had been drafted, he had of course kept his pro-German views to himself, for he valued his skin and had no desire to face a firing squad.

  • We're not in the hands of Italians now, and I don't feel up to facing a firing squad.

  • I'd as soon be shot by a guard as a firing squad," Allison said.

  • A man who will face a firing squad without a tremor, secure in the belief he is dying for a good cause.

  • Probably court martial and a firing squad," he said indifferently.

  • He said he wanted to see you get home safely and not be mixed up in anything that might mean a firing squad," said General Petain, calmly.

  • Well, its first work had better be to line Angel and a few more of his kind up against a wall and settle 'em with a firing squad," said Scott.

  • The case of Angel Gonzales was handled early one morning by a firing squad in the courtyard of Juan Pachuca's country residence.

  • Or one of the kind that orders out the firing squad if his dinner don't set well on him?

  • But from now on, Lawrence, you will be looked upon with great suspicion, and you may have trouble explaining yourself out of a German prison, if not from in front of a firing squad.

  • The hall porter says, sir, that with all these soldiers around, they are certainly going to stand you up before a firing squad.

  • A captured scout was a prisoner, no more; a spy must hang, or fall before the volley of a firing squad.

  • He turned to cross the broken door; to face a firing squad in the hot, brown woods; to cross the gulf which stretched beyond the rumble of the guns and the snarling lip of war.

  • Should fearless human love reap no reward beyond the crashing epitaph of a firing squad, and the powder smoke that drifted with the passing of a soul?

  • And it would involve others who trust me--condemn them instantly to a firing squad--if I am found by the police in their company!

  • I am not a barbarian to leave you to a firing squad, I hope.

  • That would mean death at the hands of a firing squad," mused Ensign Phelps.

  • Jordan was ordered shot, and soon afterward paid the penalty of his crime before a firing squad.

  • Any one found carrying a concealed raisin will go before a firing squad.

  • We will only land in front of a firing squad.

  • A young apple tree was standing in front of a firing squad, and Bleak closed his eyes rather than watch the tragic spectacle.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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