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
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
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
Cover thy sky with vapor and clouds, O Zeus," exclaims Goethe's Prometheus, "and practise thy strength on tops of oaks and summits of mountains like the child who beheads thistles.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by Rudd, John
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 Saleeby, C. W. (Caleb Williams)
He also referred to a 14th century predecessor who had been beheaded, adding: "I hope not literally."
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024
There has been no evidence that children were beheaded on Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024
They came for a seminar about Qiu Jin, a Chinese feminist poet and revolutionary who was beheaded more than a century ago for conspiring to overthrow the Qing dynasty.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Ever since King Charles I tried to arrest lawmakers in 1642 – and ended up deposed, tried and beheaded — the monarch has been barred from entering the House of Commons.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
He beheaded the dried blooms of a hydrangea bush.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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
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
