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
The same month, Kennedy’s daughter Kick recounted a story about her father beheading a dead whale and strapping it to the top of his minivan for a five-hour drive.
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2024
Anastasiou allegedly threatened to assassinate, kidnap, torture, hang, behead and execute the justices, and encouraged other people to join him in committing acts of violence, the Justice Department said.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
Brandy’s Cinderella is back and nearly beheaded in Descendants: The Rise of Red trailer
There's plenty of new magic, too, as Billie scrambles an egg and makes someone invisible.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2024
The Conciergerie is a former prison and residence of French kings during the French Revolution and is where Antoinette was held before she was beheaded in 1793.
—Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2024
The 18-foot-tall bronze monument to women and justice was beheaded in the early morning on July 8 while the campus was experiencing harsh weather and power outages due to Hurricane Beryl.
—Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 9 July 2024
The foundation was created by Diane Foley less than a month after her son, James Foley, an American freelance journalist, was beheaded by ISIS in Syria in 2014.
—Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
In July, Witness was beheaded at the University of Houston.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 31 July 2024
As though the real atrocities of October 7th—when almost twelve hundred people were killed—were not enough, Israeli propagandists had promoted terrifying fictions, like the claim that Hamas fighters had beheaded Israeli babies.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 July 2024
Emma Specter, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2024
Anastasiou allegedly threatened to assassinate, kidnap, torture, hang, behead and execute the justices, and encouraged other people to join him in committing acts of violence, the Justice Department said.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
Brandy’s Cinderella is back and nearly beheaded in Descendants: The Rise of Red trailer
There's plenty of new magic, too, as Billie scrambles an egg and makes someone invisible.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2024
The Conciergerie is a former prison and residence of French kings during the French Revolution and is where Antoinette was held before she was beheaded in 1793.
—Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2024
The 18-foot-tall bronze monument to women and justice was beheaded in the early morning on July 8 while the campus was experiencing harsh weather and power outages due to Hurricane Beryl.
—Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 9 July 2024
The foundation was created by Diane Foley less than a month after her son, James Foley, an American freelance journalist, was beheaded by ISIS in Syria in 2014.
—Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
In July, Witness was beheaded at the University of Houston.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 31 July 2024
As though the real atrocities of October 7th—when almost twelve hundred people were killed—were not enough, Israeli propagandists had promoted terrifying fictions, like the claim that Hamas fighters had beheaded Israeli babies.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 July 2024
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“Behead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/behead. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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behead
verb
be·head
bi-ˈhed 
: to cut off the head of
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