beheading

Example Sentences

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One day, as I was beheading a trout, it struck me: People will give me money if I just show up and do what they ask me to do.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Leo's visit, which is expected to focus on interfaith dialogue, comes 30 years after the beheading of seven French Trappist monks from a monastery during the 1990s civil war.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

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

They popped out of the walls and tables to do a bit of formation gliding; Nearly Headless Nick, the Gryffindor ghost, had a great success with a reenactment of his own botched beheading.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling