Tumbrel used in a sentence

Tumbrel in a sentence as a noun

The peasants get restless at some point, the tumbrels come out, and there's your natural law in action.

The plutocrats have forgotten what tumbrels sound like after several generations of relatively stable late capitalism.

- In the United States, elites overproduce themselves through economic and educational upward mobility- A person can be part of an ideological elite rather than an economic one.- Elite jobs do not multiply as fast as elites do.- You have a situation now where there are many more elites fighting for the same position, and some portion of them will convert to counter-elites- Elite overproduction creates counter-elites, and counter-elites look for allies among the commoners.- If commoners’ living standards slip—not relative to the elites, but relative to what they had before—they accept the overtures of the counter-elites and start oiling the axles of their tumbrels.