beheading

Example Sentences

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I haven’t watched the series, so I didn’t understand why we were beheading a stuffed bear, but families seemed thrilled to explore the venue, including petting Uncle Fester’s Chupacabra.

From Barron's • Dec. 20, 2025

Osbourne retells the infamous story of orally beheading an unsuspecting bat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

The letters date from 1578 to 1584, a few years before Mary's beheading 436 years ago - on 8 February, 1587.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2023

Halimi had pointed out, in court and in the media, that until 1943 a woman could, by law, have faced beheading by guillotine for having an abortion, such was the stigma around it.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022

I am where I want to be—on a boat that will beheading be heading for The United States of America.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman