Example sentences for: beheaded

How can you use “beheaded” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nichiren’s defiance of both Zen and Jodo (“Pure Land”) Buddhism eventually persuaded the shogunate to order him beheaded on a hill to the south of Hase.

  • The English queen kept her cousin in captivity for 20 years and finally had her beheaded on a trumped-up charge of treason.

  • He said executions in Saudi Arabia have increased threefold this year: "At least 91 people--including three women--have been publicly beheaded in 1999, including foreign nationals from Pakistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Syria, Jordan, Chad, Ethiopia and Yemen.

  • But when the English revolutionaries beheaded Charles I in 1649, the Scots rallied round his son, Charles II.

  • In couplets and the "beheaded" (first syllable omitted) four-foot iambic line, familiar from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," he speaks his mind directly and eloquently about feeling love ardently when no longer a youth.


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