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How to use behead in a sentence

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A guillotine was consequently developed that could behead twenty-five persons at a time.
Most likely it was some tradition from the days long ago when the executioners would personally behead the criminals.
In several of these areas, insurgents have killed election officials and threatened to behead anyone who votes.
I can only assume that it had been found stuck in a lobster pot or something, but why behead it?
He was about to behead him when he wounded himself with the cutting edge of his sword.
The soldier, killed by two Islamists who attempted to behead and disembowel him, was 25 years old and had a two year old son.
One famous drama critic, the late Alexander Woollcott, could behead a new play with a single thrust of his pen.
In April, the Taliban used a 12-year-old boy to behead a Pakistani they believed was a spy.
A dead goose is strung up over a stage, and competitors are invited to try to behead it.
They were also tremendous goldsmiths, outstanding farmers, skilled carpenters, refined men who anyway were used to behead their enemies.
The emperor tried to execute him but the blade of the axe broke each time they tried to behead him.
Militants threatened to behead him unless their demand was met.
When Khaled Saad answers his phone there is often a voice on the other end threatening to behead him.
Right now a young woman whose husband tried to behead her is recovering from her injuries in a Ghor hospital.
He stepped forward as he spoke, and his esquire gave him the two-hand Sword of State, heavy enough to behead a bisonoid.
On June 2, 2006, Canadian police arrested 17 Toronto residents for allegedly plotting to bomb Toronto infrastructure, behead Canadian politicians and commit other acts of al-Qaida-inspired extremism.
They not only kill soldiers in battle, they behead them and burn them.
If I told people that the reason for that was that I wanted to go back to the islands, stamp on a finch, behead a tortoise and garotte an iguana, they would assume I was a psychopath.
Militants sometimes behead victims and set bodies ablaze.
While recalling the principle of freedom of expression, the Minister stressed that the sites that have been closed were advocating terrorism and inciting to behead innocent people.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When I begged for mercy, they threatened to behead me and struck me on the head with the handle of a kukri.
If the victim dies, please find out for me whether they behead, hang, or electrocute in Japan for capital punishment.
We could not behead it, as the Tibetans would not trust us with a knife or sword.
This is to signify that, as a member of the royal family, he has authority to behead them.
There was a Thorpe among the judges who voted to behead him.
Therefore, in order to realize the perfection, let us behead them.
Another photo shows an overweight masked militant apparently struggling to behead a man identified as a captured Iraqi soldier.
Furious at the insult, he issued orders to behead all Jains.
Do you not marvel, then, at Stubb's boast, that he demanded but ten minutes to behead a sperm whale?
Then they made it appear that they were going to behead Man Sing.
He had just come in time to behead the Lady Jane Grey of our dreams.
Joss started dating Danny Radford two years ago and the couple were together at home in Devon on the day two men allegedly planned to abduct and behead her.
Behead a narrow piece of woven fabric and leave a quadrumanous animal.
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