: a chamber in which prisoners are executed by poison gas
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Ramirez was given a total of 13 death sentences, and was sentenced to be executed by gas chamber, The New York Times reported.—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 7 June 2025 Over the course of 1942, Pilecki correctly grasped why the Nazis were enlarging the camp complex by adding gas chambers and crematoriums.—Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025 That stack also featured several books by David Irving, a disgraced British historian who has denied the existence of the Nazi gas chambers and helped popularize the theory about Mr. Churchill’s culpability in World War II espoused by Mr. Cooper on Mr. Carlson’s show.—Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025 The notable feature of this particular death factory was its use of gas vans, a forerunner to the larger, more impersonal gas chambers built at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gas chamber
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