Examples of behead in a Sentence
Louis XVI was beheaded in 1793.
Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded for plotting against Queen Elizabeth.
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Over the course of the novel, people sneak around the various sumptuous palaces, nibbling at hallucinogens and trying to figure out if today is the day they’ll be beheaded, tortured, or ritually executed.
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Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2024
Any man that would marry his sister to King Henry VIII, just after he's beheaded his previous wife, that's a man who's interesting.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 June 2024
Things get even more gruesome as Scooby-Doo chews on the face, Shaggy loses an arm and Velma is beheaded.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 19 May 2024
Daemon quickly pulls his sword and beheads her, but a little decapitation isn’t going to stop Dreamnyra from mocking him.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 7 July 2024
The Season 1 finale sees Lady Jane Grey being brought out to be beheaded and Lord Guildford Dudley put on a pyre.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2024
In December 2023, a Georgia middle school teacher was arrested after he was accused of threatening to behead a 13-year-old Muslim student.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
The cinematographer Robbie Ryan likes to behead people just above the nose or spend a scene staring at their feet, getting intimate only for extreme closeups of flossing or French kissing.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
The most disturbingly memorable is the scene where Jaguar Paw is laid out by his captors and prepared to have his beating heart cut from his chest before he’s beheaded, and the ritual is interrupted by a solar eclipse.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2024
Any man that would marry his sister to King Henry VIII, just after he's beheaded his previous wife, that's a man who's interesting.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 June 2024
Things get even more gruesome as Scooby-Doo chews on the face, Shaggy loses an arm and Velma is beheaded.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 19 May 2024
Daemon quickly pulls his sword and beheads her, but a little decapitation isn’t going to stop Dreamnyra from mocking him.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 7 July 2024
The Season 1 finale sees Lady Jane Grey being brought out to be beheaded and Lord Guildford Dudley put on a pyre.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2024
In December 2023, a Georgia middle school teacher was arrested after he was accused of threatening to behead a 13-year-old Muslim student.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
The cinematographer Robbie Ryan likes to behead people just above the nose or spend a scene staring at their feet, getting intimate only for extreme closeups of flossing or French kissing.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
The most disturbingly memorable is the scene where Jaguar Paw is laid out by his captors and prepared to have his beating heart cut from his chest before he’s beheaded, and the ritual is interrupted by a solar eclipse.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
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“Behead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/behead. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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behead
verb
be·head
bi-ˈhed 
: to cut off the head of
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