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How to use executioner in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Executioner means an official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal. Example: “The executioner threw the switch on Old Sparky, and the condemned prisoner was electrocuted for his crimes.”

Examples of executioner by meaning

nounAn official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.

  • Even the Russian contraktniki, or freelance fighters, were not as feared as Mr Kadyrov's private army of kidnappers, torturers and executioners were.2004 May 11, “Prisoners of the Caucasus”, in The Guardian

More sentences with executioner

  • The executioner threw the switch on Old Sparky, and the condemned prisoner was electrocuted for his crimes.From the entry electrocute
  • The executioner was proud that he kept his axe razor-sharp, so no prisoner would feel any pain when his head was cut off.From the entry razor-sharp
  • A slow dancing death, courtesy of the short rope, brouht in by canny executioners.2022 November 30, John Gardiner, A Hitchhiker's Triptych. From the entry dance
  • Their axe was a replica of one which belonged to Magdeburg's headman —famous executioner Wilhelm Riedel.2020, Beata Gontarczyk-Krampe, Notmsparker's Second Berlin Companion. From the entry headman
  • Even more sedate accounts agree that, like Thomas Cromwell, she was hacked about by a second-string executioner.2017, Hilary Mantel, “How Do We Know Her? The Secrets of Margaret Pole”, in Mantel Pieces, published 2020. From the entry hack about
  • Did Anne Boleyn’s neck have to meet the sword of an executioner brought from Calais to do her in?2020 March 28, Catherine Holmes, “Review: Mantel’s trilogy finale gives us the end of Cromwell’s action-packed life”, in The Post and…. From the entry cross the Styx
  • Hemmed in by the circle of Soviet executioners, the yaks cried out in terror and agony as lead hellstorms of 7.62mm lead marched along their hides.1990, Dan Schmidt, Red Firestorm (Eagle Force #4), Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry hellstorm
  • He learned medicine and surgery "from executioners, bathkeepers, gypsies, midwives, and fortune tellers and incidentally acquired an unusual knowledge of folk-medicine and a permanent taste for low company."1935 September 2, “Medicine: Chemotherapy”, in Time, retrieved 08 Jun 2014. From the entry folk medicine
  • Significantly, in the novel and film, The Pledge has the perpetrator of the crimes being punished by a freak accident, not by humans, machines being the judge, jury and executioner.2005 November, Jason Lee, “Insanity and Paranoia”, in Pervasive Perversion: Paedophilia and Child Sexual Abuse in Media/Culture, London…. From the entry paedophilephobia

Meaning of executioner

  1. noun An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
  2. noun Executor.
  3. noun A hit man, especially being in some organization.

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Questions about executioner in a sentence

How do you use executioner in a sentence?
Executioner is used as a noun. For example: “The executioner threw the switch on Old Sparky, and the condemned prisoner was electrocuted for his crimes.”
What is a short sentence with executioner?
“A slow dancing death, courtesy of the short rope, brouht in by canny executioners.”
What does executioner mean?
Executioner means an official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.

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