behead

Example Sentences

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Wagner members have been accused of torturing a Syrian captive with a sledgehammer, beheading him and then setting his body on fire in 2017.

From BBC

Since then, there has been a surge in military atrocities, including the beheading, disembowelment or dismemberment of nearly two dozen rebels and civilians this month in Sagaing Region.

From New York Times

A man went mad and lay his neck on a train track to behead himself.

From Los Angeles Times

In the original story, Princess Turandot, the daughter of a Chinese emperor, seeks to avoid marriage by giving potential suitors three riddles to solve, and those who can't are promptly beheaded.

From Reuters

The attack rocked the town and set off alarms across France, still reeling from the beheading of another teacher, Samuel Paty, by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee and Islamist more than two years earlier.

From New York Times