Usage of "death chair"

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An instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person.

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Examples for "chair"

She was also chair of the African Union Commission until last year. 
 The South African 

The general and Totski exchanged looks; Gania fidgeted convulsively in his chair. 
 The Idiot 

I'd say you just work on your form and lose the chair. 
 Wired 

Festival Board chair Kirsten Sibbit said they had not seen that happen. 
 Radio NZ 

When he came in, I was in the chair; but I rose. 
 Oddsfish! 

Your brain's in the electric chair and you don't even know it.' 
 Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology 

The only thing that will calm him down is the electric chair. 
 Rage of angels 

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg went to the electric chair in Sing Sing. 
 A quiet vendetta 

You've probably got enough to send him straight to the electric chair! 
 BBC 

In the last one, Abraham Wilson was strapped in the electric chair. 
 Rage of angels 

In the hot seat today is film and TV actress Robyn Malcolm. 
 Radio NZ 

I could get six million viewers with Stella in the hot seat. 
 Babyville 

The sooner you can climb back into the hot seat, the better. 
 Stars rain down 

Why did you want to put yourself in that same hot seat? 
 Wired 

GM was not alone in the hot seat during the Senate hearing. 
 Reuters 

Uso de death chair en inglés

He'll go to the death chair sure if I can frame him. 
 The Big-Town Round-Up 

It's the death chair for him and no lifeboat in sight. 
 The Big-Town Round-Up 

So Jones will spend his days in prison, though he will escape the death chair. 
 The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories 

Well, to tell the truth, Mr. Max, it seems sort of natural-like, me being here facing that death chair. 
 Native son 

Translations for death chair

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Significados de death chair en inglés