How to Use decapitate in a Sentence

decapitate

verb

• One statue in the nearby city of Yonkers was decapitated, the head dumped next to a trash can.
  — Barbara Demick, latimes.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• The mushroom, therefore, can’t be sliced and diced; decapitate it, and the pearls go tumbling.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• The bodies were then decapitated and priests removed the skin and muscle from the corpses’ heads.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 27 June 2018
• This guy was stabbed 100 times, decapitated, had his heart torn out of his chest.
  — Fox News, 18 Aug. 2018
• His body was found on Velma Street, decapitated and with both legs and arms cut off, the DA’s office said at the time.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 27 June 2023
• Some of them had been decapitated, their severed heads placed on the fence.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
• Others used machetes to hack off spear and lance points, and then decapitate their foes.
  — Scott Dalton, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
• The top of the car may be sheared off; the occupants are often decapitated.
  — Rich McHugh, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2017
• Priests cut the victims’ hearts from their chests, then decapitated the bodies and defleshed the skulls.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2018
• The body had been decapitated and both arms had been severed.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 12 June 2024
• The victim had been decapitated, and a machete and a large kitchen knife were found at the scene, according to the complaint.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2024
• Even a 14-game winning streak by the second-place Atlanta Braves hasn’t been able to decapitate New York.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• At the time, the team reported that a volcanic cloud had launched a stone door jamb toward the man, decapitating him.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2018
• People have threatened to come by and lynch me, decapitate me.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 24 Dec. 2020
• Bundy would go on to murder and decapitate her ex-boyfriend John Robert Murray.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• His car drove under the trailer, the roof was torn off, Brown was decapitated, and the Model S came to rest in a ditch nearly 400 yards away.
  — Chuck Tannert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2018
• Walden's body was better concealed and had not been bound, but his throat had been slashed so deeply as to almost decapitate him.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 July 2024
• Maynard decapitated Blackbeard and hung his head from the front of his ship.
  — Chris Scott, CNN, 26 May 2017
• There are still lines that can’t be crossed, and one of those lines is joking about decapitating the president.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 31 May 2017
• When the plants are new and tiny, Yiesla said, it’s enough to decapitate them with a hoe or cultivator that just skims the soil surface.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2022
• Her naked body was found decapitated near a bike trail.
  — CBS News, 8 June 2023
• Brosso was decapitated and subject to a frenzied knife attack and Bernas was cut on her neck and chest.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
• The sources say Schlecht was found in the apartment’s bathroom, decapitated.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• His best friend was decapitated by a mortar round and his head ended up in Schrock's lap.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2018
• A few days later, all but one of the figures were decapitated with a hammer.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2017
• The Islamists slit throats, decapitated villagers and shot teenage girls for not wearing the veil.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• In such cases, the organs would be removed and burned, the head sometimes decapitated, and the body reburied.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2019
• Caleb was decapitated while riding in one of the park's water slides.
  — Marilia Brocchetto, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
• The carvings include birds, plants, spiders, humanlike figures with headdresses, decapitated heads and an orca wielding a knife.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
• But following the assassinations of Nasrallah and several of the group's top commanders, its leadership has been decapitated and its fighting forces in disarray.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024