Example sentences for: decapitated

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

  • Oliver Cromwell was decapitated after death and his head left on a pole in Westminster Hall for 27 years.

  • Algerian atrocity watch : Militants 1) decapitated or cut the throats of 12 children and 26 adults in one village; 2) similarly massacred 22 children and 15 adults in another village; 3) slaughtered 20 teen-agers and young adults at a wedding; and 4) attacked a school bus and killed the driver and 16 children, some of whom were shot through the head.

  • But while he's thinking it over, Osmin goes into a paroxysm of bloodthirst, demanding that the four be first decapitated, then hanged, then impaled, then burnt at the stake, then tied up and drowned, and then flogged:

  • The German weekly Der Spiegel carried a story to the same effect, while Le Monde of Paris reported Sunday on its front page about another plan to murder a dictator (Hitler)--one for which a 25-year-old Swiss man named Maurice Bavaud was decapitated in Berlin in May 1941.

  • He killed three sightseers in February and decapitated a park-employed naturalist last week.


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