behead
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In 2017, in the process of expanding his cattle shed, Morandi Bonacossi said, the farmer managed to behead one of the monumental reliefs with a bulldozer.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
The children learned to mend their own clothing and knew how to behead and pluck a chicken.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2020
A love of puzzles is clear in the call to behead the bodyless Cheshire Cat: what, exactly, would you behead?
From Nature ● Nov. 17, 2015
In Santa Monica, Nick Banning has gone so far as to behead his beloved bobblehead collection and place the figures in his front yard in a mock baseball game.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2014
A woman was in the kitchen downstairs, about to behead a coconut with a scythe.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
There you will stand for eight hours, clad in ill-fitting rubber boots and a hooded plastic onesie, while she guts and beheads an endless stream of salmon floating by on a metal belt.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
It would be like reducing the whole of Macbeth to the final scene where Macduff beheads the King, and therefore revealing nothing about his motivation or history.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2019
So he goes to the fish market to prod clams, watches in awe as a bar owner beheads a bottle with a sword, then throws together four different risottos, all beautiful.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2010
The whiplash of the tempest cracked the tree trunks as a child beheads a row of daisies.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
The poison deranges first the latest and highest products of evolution; it beheads a man, as we may say, in thin slices from above downwards.
From Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby
England’s Hever Castle & Gardens presents an exhibition following the winding, often ambiguous visual record of Henry VIII’s second wife—and the first to be beheaded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
There has been no evidence that children were beheaded on Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024
Cromwell died of natural causes after ruling the country as Lord Protector, but when the monarchy was restored, his corpse was exhumed and beheaded.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024
Louis XVI — the Sun King — and Queen Marie Antoinette held lavish banquets at Versailles before they were beheaded during the French revolution.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
He beheaded the dried blooms of a hydrangea bush.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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
If he can pull off that trick, though, he will prove himself more akin to Charles II who restored the monarchy 11 years after his father’s beheading.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
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
A lifetime of peaceful vegetarianism stood between me and the willful beheading of a fish.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
