decapitation

Example Sentences

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If all this jesting and jousting about historically documented misogyny, maternal misery and decapitation isn’t your goblet of grog after a while, “Six” smartly pivots in the final wife’s number, “I Don’t Need Your Love.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Tanystropheus is the only marine reptile known to suffer such unceremonious decapitation.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2023

Some Puritans remained in England to fight in a civil war that saw the decapitation of a king and the arrival of a commonwealth.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2022

The Doctors Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley; internal decapitation; electric scooters; probiotics; a giveaway.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2019

Saint Winifred recovered from her decapitation and became an abbess.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz