send to the scaffold
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cause someone to be condemned to be hanged.
Example Sentences
- "The unfortunate widow of Louis XVI. was the first who was sent to the scaffold by the sanguinary tribunal of the revolution."
- "Three men were sent to the scaffold—the Brothers Stanbourn (although a great fight was put up by Richard Stanbourn's counsel) for the slaying of William Jones and (in the case of Joseph Stanbourn) of Arthur Marsh."
- "He had seen often the traces of dust on the judge's knees after he had prayed for the souls of the men he had sent to the scaffold."
- "On the other hand, how could the peerage — which had been the support of the now subverted throne, and which, perhaps, had secretly shared its hopes and its delirium — how could it escape public disgrace, if, too obedient to popular malice, a malice which had been accumulating since 1815, it sent to the scaffold the king's ministers, deputies, peers of France, men of their own rank and standard?"
- "I understand, of course, why you are anxious to get this thing without disagreeable consequences to yourself. You regard it as one of the links in a chain that may some day send you to the scaffold."
- "The Drummonds were an old family who had provided Scotland with two Queens, and had always strongly supported the Stuarts, a loyalty that had sent some of its members into exile and others to the scaffold."