Sentence examples for breaking wheel from inspiring English sources
noun
A form of execution, among the ancient Europeans, in which the victim is fastened to a wheel and subjected to blows.
The wars, and betrayal by others, required Robespierre to defend that revolution with a device proposed along with his friend Joseph-Ignace Guillotin as a humane alternative to the breaking wheel, after the pair had unsuccessfully attempted to abolish the death penalty.
At one time, diabolical machines were devised for torture: from the brank, the brazen bull, and the breaking wheel to the heretic's fork, the instep borer and the iron maiden.
Breaking Wheel "Shoulder to the Plow" 80.
Sometimes a broken wheel: stuff we know we can repair".
The F-8 model has a broken wheel, and one of its Sidewinder missiles is loose.
The broken wheel tyre of the rubber-sprung wheel finally was identified as reason for the accident.
Align the front fork at the wrong angle, for example, and the front wheel will swivel erratically like a broken wheel on a shopping cart.
Andretti passed Revson and picked up another position when the leading Porsche 917 slowed down with broken wheel studs.
In 1916 a broken wheel on a General Motors car caused product liability to be expanded beyond an explicit violation of contract.
Police were called to the crater on the A34 on Sunday evening after cars suffered blown-out tyres and broken wheel trims.
For a while Ángel Di Maria teased Liverpool on the left flank, pirouetting around his strong left foot like a supermarket trolley with a broken wheel.
