How to Use executioner in a Sentence

executioner

noun

• If the aim of the executioners is not true, death could take time.
  — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
• Judd hands her a gun and tells her to join the executioner’s squad.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
• If the aim of the executioners is not true, death could take even longer.
  — CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
• If the aim of the executioners is not true, death could take even longer.
  — CBS News, 4 Mar. 2025
• One of the film’s episodes depicts a day in the life of an executioner.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
• But they were not lost at all, but rather executioners who shot and killed Sarah.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
• The executioner sent someone to look for a stronger rope.
  — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
• At least that is what the executioners have always claimed.
  — Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
• The son of an executioner falls for the daughter of a wedding singer.
  — Shalini Dore, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• Witnesses will not be able to see the executioners nor learn their names.
  — Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
• The executioner struck Anne’s head off with a single swing of his sword.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
• Police cannot act as judge, jury and executioner on our streets.
  — Dave Collins, The Seattle Times, 16 May 2017
• Flight does not mean judge, jury and executioner and that’s what happened here.
  — Ryan Young, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
• That's not the executioner — that's me without a head.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
• Who gets to decide who the judge, jury, and executioner is?
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
• In a country where the police are judge, jury and executioner, no one can feel safe.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• The executioners move toward her, placing the rope over her head.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 May 2025
• As the rabbi prayed, the executioner secured the five leather straps.
  — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
• An executioner climbed a ladder behind the post, put the noose around the man’s neck and tightened the rope.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
• Romell Broom made it out of the death chamber after his executioners tried for two hours to find a good vein.
  — Tracy Connor, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2018
• Miller has been like the executioner for aging fighters in his weight region.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
• TikTok was now the judge, jury and executioner of what’s cute to wear.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2024
• Instead, the police took the role of judge, jury and executioner.
  — NBC News, 14 Aug. 2019
• Jane, who may have been as young as 16, is shown blindfolded as an executioner with an axe waits to behead her.
  — Pan Pylas, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
• Finally, the signal will be given to the executioner to begin the flow of lethal drugs.
  — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2019
• Those were the days when Woods was an executioner in exercise clothing.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• The switches control a gene called Bax, an executioner that compels a cell to kill itself.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2011
• Her husband is the judge, jury and executioner.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2026
• Law enforcement doesn’t get to be judge, jury and executioner all in one horrible shot.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
• In some gruesome cases, executioners are forced to cut into the inmate's neck or groin to find a place to insert the needle.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2023