draw and quarter

Example Sentences

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Bottom line: even if we draw and quarter the iPhone franchise across every major metric, Apple is still worth more than the market price.

From Forbes

If one of her children behaved like that, she would absolutely hang, draw and quarter them, she says.

From The Guardian

"If we started sharing our customers' e-mail addresses, they would draw and quarter us," he says.

From Inc

"Put his proposal to a vote of the 200 Americans in the room and see them draw and quarter him."

From Project Gutenberg

If an officer, a sheriff, execute a man on the gallows, draw and quarter him, as in case of high treason, and cut off his head, this is justifiable homicide.

From Project Gutenberg