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Example sentences for "decapitate"

Lexicographically close words:
decantation; decanted; decanter; decanters; decanting; decapitated; decapitating; decapitation; decapod; decasyllabic
  1. The aligua appears to be used, not as a fighting weapon, but to decapitate their fallen enemies and as a means of carrying the head home on a spike.

  2. Lurking near a trail, they cast the fatal coil over some unwary traveller, and promptly decapitate him, to add his skull to their collection, and decorate their hut.

  3. The swordsman commonly thrust with his weapon, but he could cut with it likewise, for it was with this arm that the Assyrian warrior was wont to decapitate his fallen enemy.

  4. Men will hang like pears on every lamp-post, in every great quarter of London, there will be an electric guillotine that will decapitate the rich like hogs in Chicago.

  5. Kamakura's answer was to decapitate the five leaders of the mission and to pillory their heads outside the city.

  6. Kikuo, Noritsune's squire, leaped from his boat to decapitate the wounded Tsuginobu, but was shot down by the latter's younger brother.

  7. It has always been the policy of Mahometan States to send their troublesome subjects, such as were not considered rebel enough to decapitate or to imprison, on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

  8. The cruelly avaricious tyrant deigned to accept it of the father it is said, at the very moment when the order to decapitate his son had been sent to Mazagran.

  9. I should decapitate your Mrs. Grundy, and make it compulsory for bishops to dance once a week in Trafalgar Square.

  10. Aristide, excitedly casting away his straw hat, which an unintentional twist of the wrist caused to skim horizontally and nearly decapitate a small and perspiring soldier who happened to pass by.

  11. The black and white eunuchs keeping order in the streets decapitate without mercy every man who does not remain indoors.

  12. When he found that there were none he flew into a rage and was about to decapitate the prefect, but let him off on condition that he find some troops immediately.

  13. It is said that a courtier took an axe and went to the palace, where he asked the king to decapitate him as the sight of these excesses made him hate life.

  14. One man, braver than the rest, gave Mansing a few cuts with a whip, warning us that if the ropes were found undone again they would decapitate us there and then.

  15. They found Man Sing's bonds loose and, giving him a few cuts with a whip, warned him that if he undid them again they would decapitate him, and refastened them.

  16. It is a pious act of religion to deface stones representing figures of any sort, to decapitate heads of statues, and destroy every shape and symbol of the human likeness, not excepting likenesses of animals.

  17. He is therefore no pleasant customer for a Christian to meet with on the highways of The Sahara, whom he would decapitate with less scruple of conscience than a Leadenhall poulterer would cut off a goose's head.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decapitate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.