firing squad
Example Sentences
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Their most famous works include “The Execution of Christ,” in which a firing squad of Mao’s take aim at Jesus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
One insider to the process has told me she had already decided to resign because she didn't have confidence in the board and viewed them as a "circular firing squad".
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
Arenales gallantly stepping up to support Espinal against a social firing squad sparked a flame between the two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025
Borrowing from what Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested in 2017, we can’t know whether his death was “comparatively painless” or whether, as Denno says, South Carolina’s firing squad delivered a “swift and certain death.”
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2025
At eight years old, Timmy had distributed illegal communist leaflets in tsarist Russia; as a teen, he survived being executed by firing squad by playing dead on the ground for two days.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
