How to Use executioner in a Sentence

executioner

noun

• 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
• The son of an executioner falls for the daughter of a wedding singer.
  — Shalini Dore, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• The executioner struck Anne’s head off with a single swing of his sword.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
• 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
• In a dark room lit by oil lamps, a man with slicked-back gray hair and the face of an executioner sits at a large table stacked to the ceiling with files.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
• The defendant took it upon himself to be the judge, the jury, and the executioner over a $2 [drink].
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2019
• That punch loomed like an executioner’s sword, and when Davis landed it against the ropes in the sixth, Santa Cruz’s body seemed to short circuit.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• In the Book of Ezekiel, for instance, the cherubim help a divine executioner hurl down burning coal to destroy the city of Jerusalem.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2021
• The lines ran into a slot in the green-tiled back wall, behind which was the chemical room, the unseen chamber in which sat the executioner.
  — Caroline Lester, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• Iran remains one of the world’s top executioners, having put to death at least 203 prisoners since the start of this year alone.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• The third episode's synopsis seems to offer least of all in terms of substance, though the title is a play on the title of an executioner.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 16 July 2016
• In a country where the police are judge, jury and executioner, no one can feel safe.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• Finally, the signal will be given to the executioner to begin the flow of lethal drugs.
  — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2019
• Just one person is standing in the way: Spike, who can’t bring himself to be his executioner or even to stand back and let Vicious die.
  — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2021
• Instead, the police took the role of judge, jury and executioner.
  — NBC News, 14 Aug. 2019
• Flight does not mean judge, jury and executioner and that’s what happened here.
  — Ryan Young, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
• 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
• The switches control a gene called Bax, an executioner that compels a cell to kill itself.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2011
• Only two jobs were lower: the grave digger and the executioner.
  — Rick Steves, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2021
• In Wong’s version, the executioners wear the blue uniforms of Hong Kong police, seen by many to be closer to Beijing than to the city’s own residents.
  — Vivienne Chow, Quartz, 31 Dec. 2019
• The tennis ball is a bit smaller than usual, and more tightly wound; it’s made of leather and the hair of Anne Boleyn, which was preserved by her French executioner.
  — The New Yorker, 9 July 2023
• In 1536, condemned English queen Anne Boleyn knelt in a courtyard in front of an executioner’s sword and awaited the fatal blow to her neck.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Police cannot act as judge, jury and executioner on our streets.
  — Dave Collins, The Seattle Times, 16 May 2017
• An axe was imported from Denmark to carry out the penalty and the brother of one of the victims was chosen as executioner.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Brock Purdy — the final player selected in the 2022 draft and more of an executioner of the Shanahan system.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Virginia, once a prolific executioner, did so in March, bringing the number of states to have abolished the death penalty to 23.
  — NBC News, 16 Dec. 2021
• Those were the days when Woods was an executioner in exercise clothing.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• The market was henceforth to be judge, jury and executioner.
  — Duff McDonald, Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2017
• In November 2022, Smith suffered for hours as executioners tried to find a vein to administer the lethal drugs before ultimately calling it off.
  — Jeanine Santucci, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2024
• The Roman guards and executioners are recast as British colonial officers.
  — NPR, 22 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024