Examples of behead in a Sentence
Louis XVI was beheaded in 1793.
Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded for plotting against Queen Elizabeth.
Recent Examples on the Web
Sure, there are crowns and pretty ballgowns and cool sword fights and castles; as ever, the plot hinges on noble conspiracies and threats of beheading.
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Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
In March, a police officer was reportedly beheaded and two of her bodyguards were killed in an attack on a highway.
—Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 18 June 2024
Rather, the photo features a very much real — and not at all beheaded — flamingo that photographer Miles Astray captured on the beaches of Aruba two years ago.
—María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
Among them stood the old Republican Palace where followers of the Mahdi, a cleric, toppled and beheaded the country’s British governor-general, Charles Gordon, in 1885.
—Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
Across town, Armand raises a sewer grate as Louis braces for beheading.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 28 May 2024
Similarly, the man charged with murdering ten Black Americans in June 2022 at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, had threatened to commit a murder-suicide and had written about stabbing and beheading a cat.
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 8 July 2022
Dubray’s mediocre statue had already been beheaded three decades ago — a symbolic decapitation that couldn’t help but recall Marie-Antoinette’s actual fate at the guillotine.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
But would you rather be blasted by tiny pieces — which really hurts — or beheaded or stabbed in the heart by a large shard with tape dangling off of it?
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
In March, a police officer was reportedly beheaded and two of her bodyguards were killed in an attack on a highway.
—Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 18 June 2024
Rather, the photo features a very much real — and not at all beheaded — flamingo that photographer Miles Astray captured on the beaches of Aruba two years ago.
—María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
Among them stood the old Republican Palace where followers of the Mahdi, a cleric, toppled and beheaded the country’s British governor-general, Charles Gordon, in 1885.
—Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
Across town, Armand raises a sewer grate as Louis braces for beheading.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 28 May 2024
Similarly, the man charged with murdering ten Black Americans in June 2022 at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, had threatened to commit a murder-suicide and had written about stabbing and beheading a cat.
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 8 July 2022
Dubray’s mediocre statue had already been beheaded three decades ago — a symbolic decapitation that couldn’t help but recall Marie-Antoinette’s actual fate at the guillotine.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
But would you rather be blasted by tiny pieces — which really hurts — or beheaded or stabbed in the heart by a large shard with tape dangling off of it?
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
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“Behead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/behead. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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behead
verb
be·head
bi-ˈhed 
: to cut off the head of
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