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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Six, a clever reimagining of what the wives of Henry VIII endured — a couple were beheaded — scores its points in just 80 minutes, with no intermission.
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Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026
Judith, who beheads an opposing general in order to save her community.
—Christy Cobb, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2026
Preparing whole fish usually entails deboning, scaling, gutting, and beheading the sea creature, a task for you—or your fishmonger.
—Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 12 Jan. 2026
She was dismembered, de-fleshed, and even beheaded before being burned.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
Joyce beheads Vecna while all the characters expel their collective trauma from five seasons of violence and misery.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
According to Open Doors, the continent’s most populous nation saw the worst persecution in Africa in 2025, with ‘non-stop stories of deadly attacks and kidnappings’ across Nigeria’s north and Middle Belt — a litany of villages torched, citizens raped, abducted, shot and beheaded.
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
On subsequent songs, Ninajirachi sings about the destruction of her innocence through sexting, and the trauma of coming across a beheading video.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
But the week of Thanksgiving, the couple was shocked when one of their 20 bison was shot, killed and beheaded on the family’s ranch near County Road 301 and FM 3108, south of Lindsay.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Dec. 2025
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Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026
Judith, who beheads an opposing general in order to save her community.
—Christy Cobb, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2026
Preparing whole fish usually entails deboning, scaling, gutting, and beheading the sea creature, a task for you—or your fishmonger.
—Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 12 Jan. 2026
She was dismembered, de-fleshed, and even beheaded before being burned.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
Joyce beheads Vecna while all the characters expel their collective trauma from five seasons of violence and misery.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
According to Open Doors, the continent’s most populous nation saw the worst persecution in Africa in 2025, with ‘non-stop stories of deadly attacks and kidnappings’ across Nigeria’s north and Middle Belt — a litany of villages torched, citizens raped, abducted, shot and beheaded.
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
On subsequent songs, Ninajirachi sings about the destruction of her innocence through sexting, and the trauma of coming across a beheading video.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
But the week of Thanksgiving, the couple was shocked when one of their 20 bison was shot, killed and beheaded on the family’s ranch near County Road 301 and FM 3108, south of Lindsay.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Dec. 2025
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“Behead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/behead. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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behead
verb
be·head
bi-ˈhed 
: to cut off the head of
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