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More sentences with behead

• As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.From the entry humane
• A large crowd gathered to see the beheading.From the entry beheading
• They gasped at the sight of the beheaded king.From the entry beheaded
• The nest cavity was situated on top of a dead beheaded awara palm tree Astrocaryum vulgare.2017, Olivier Claessens, Nyls de Pracontal, Johan Ingels, “The Owls of French Guiana”, in Paula L. Enríquez, editor, Neotropical Owls…. From the entry awara
• When he passed out, she beheaded him, causing his soldiers to panic and flee.1997, Reudor, “The Women of Hanukkah”, in The Doodle Family Hanukkah, Huntington Beach, Calif.: Atara Publishing, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry blintse
• The barbarians were duodecimated — i.e., one out of every twelve was beheaded.1974, Jean d’Ormesson, The Glory of the Empire, page 298. From the entry duodecimate
• The operation of blockheading is much the same as that of beheading, which Charles I underwent.1958, The Ethical Outlook: A Journal of the American Ethical Union. From the entry blockhead
• Such lines are said to be acephalous (headless) or, as acrostic writers would put it, “beheaded.”1934, Robert Swann, Frank Sidgwick, chapter 2, in The Making of Verse: A Guide to English Metres, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, page 16. From the entry acephalous
• There’s a real beheading in this picture with John as the beheadee and Lionel Barrymore the beheader.1927 April 15, “Colleen Moore, Clara Bow, John Gilbert Top Film Bills Here Next Week: Two Features at Broad Street; Grand, Capitol Have…. From the entry beheadee
• Unless that gauze can fix a beheading.2010, Kresley Cole, Demon from the Dark, page 81. From the entry tacticool
• Atrocities on live Americans like beheading prisoners on Wake Island, the mutilation of bodies at other Pacific Island battles.2006, Fred L. Ward, Picking up the Pieces: The Battle of Iwo Jima, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry mop up
• Some joker beheaded ‘classes’ and made it into ‘lasses’, but the professor then got his own back by deleting the ‘I’.2003, Tony Augarde, The Oxford Guide to Word Games. From the entry beheadment
• Three beheadees are up in the block again in Iran to be beheaded, to be hung or beheaded, to be executed.2000, The Status of Religious Liberty in Russia Today: Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred…. From the entry beheadee
• I want to behead, bebreast, beleg the Venus of Milo.1931, Martha Foley, Story - Volume 1 - Page 61. From the entry bewing
• "The fish has been beheaded, de-tailed, de-boned and is ready for de-frying pan," his Dad announced in a really bad Italian accent.2014, Cameron Elliott, Camp Hero: Where Time Travel Began, page 63. From the entry de-tail
• They kidnapped an Indian officer and beheaded him, bringing the head back to be paraded in the bazaars of Kotlin in Pakistani Kashmir.2013, Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man’s Garden, Part 2, Ch. 23. From the entry parade
• One of these had his carbine strapped on his back, and swung under his arm was a three-foot beheading sword wrapped in red cloth.December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry carbine
• Thus the convicted could not “complain if a foot was taken instead of his eyes, or if he was hanged instead of beheaded”.1991, Carla Ann Hage Johnson, “Entitled to Clemency: Mercy in the Criminal Law”, in Law and Philosophy, X, № 1 (February 1991), page 112. From the entry botleas
• He stepped forward as he spoke, and his esquire gave him the two-hand Sword of State, heavy enough to behead a bisonoid.1963, H. Beam Piper, chapter 4, in Space Viking, New York: Ace Books, page 18. From the entry two-hand sword
• A temple abbot who used a DIY guillotine to behead himself in hope of attaining enlightenment might have misinterpreted some things along the way, Thailand’s religious authorities said yesterday.2021 April 19, “Thai monk who beheaded himself with guillotine to reach nirvana may have been misguided: Buddhist authority”, in Coconuts…. From the entry DIY
• The verbivorous author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll evinced a prodigious talent for merging two words and beheading parts of one or both.2012, Richard Lederer, Amazing Words. From the entry verbivorous
• The group operating where we were was called the "Abu Sayyaf" and specialised in K&R (kidnap and ransom), usually of tourists who would finish up beheaded on TV.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 94. From the entry tourist
• Beheadments don't always rhyme, and sometimes one word is capitalized and the other is not, but the original word and its beheaded version will always fit into a sensible sentence.2013, Corinne Gediman, X-Train Your Brain. Level 3: Increasing stamina. From the entry beheadment

Meaning of behead

1. verb To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.

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Questions about behead in a sentence

How do you use behead in a sentence?

Behead is used as a verb. For example: “As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.”

What is a short sentence with behead?

“Unless that gauze can fix a beheading.”

What does behead mean?

Behead means to deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.