firing squad in English
They went through the farce of a court martial and were then shot by a firing squad .
Use "firing squad" in a sentence
1. Many died in front of the firing squad.
2. They shot her by firing squad at dawn.
3. The firing squad aimed, fired -- the general was dead.
4. In 1923 three prisoners were executed by firing squad.
5. The executions will be carried out by a firing squad.
6. It was almost his turn to go before the firing squad.
7. But last week one murderer was shot by a firing squad.
8. In December, Beria was found guilty and sent before a firing squad.
9. Enough about the victims - what about the members of a firing squad?
10. Facing him at the office next day was like facing a firing squad.
11. We were beaten with leather whips and then taken before a firing squad.
12. Honestly, two days, Frank, two days, and you're in front of a firing squad?
13. The firing squad were already aiming their rifles and waiting for the order to shoot.
14. So just before the firing squad is ordered to shoot, the unconscious man is pinched awake.
15. No officer convicted of plotting against him met his end at the hands of the firing squad.
16. My classmate and I were put in prison for that attack and sentenced to death by firing squad.
17. People like me, who believed the firing squad had been assembled, were left with egg on our faces.
18. He has stated that he chose the firing squad to make it hard for Utah to carry it out.
19. Billy had heard that one man in each firing squad was customarily given a rifle loaded with blank cartridge.
20. On the other hand, we are not a nation that summarily disposes of our criminal population with a firing squad.
21. Small's nephew stood behind the firing squad and trained a searchlight back and forth as we hared across the fields.
22. Hustled through the storm and into the reception area he felt like some one on their way to a firing squad.
23. 1922 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
24. He was supposedly taken aback for a moment when he saw the gallows, because up until that moment he really had been expecting a firing squad.
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26. ‘Inflicting or otherwise causing a Blighty wound was considered a capital offense, which was punishable by execution by a firing squad.’ ‘A few nights later he copped a Blighty bullet in his leg and I last saw him in Dover Hospital in 1943.’ ‘Then, as you know, I copped a Blighty while standing on the ground, if …