| In several of these areas, insurgents have killed election officials and threatened to behead anyone who votes. |
| Militants threatened to behead him unless their demand was met. |
| One famous drama critic, the late Alexander Woollcott, could behead a new play with a single thrust of his pen. |
| The emperor tried to execute him but the blade of the axe broke each time they tried to behead him. |
| I can only assume that it had been found stuck in a lobster pot or something, but why behead it? |
| They were also tremendous goldsmiths, outstanding farmers, skilled carpenters, refined men who anyway were used to behead their enemies. |
