beheads
- present tense form of behead (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
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)
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
