behead

Example Sentences

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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

I fetched my father, who came walking fast as if I’d discovered a viper he meant to behead.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver