How To Use Decapitate In A Sentence

  • Bush and his war cabinet, including Rumsfeld, Cheney and Powell, hastily convened at the White House to consider an airstrike to "decapitate" the Iraqi leadership. 'I HAVEN'T SUFFERED DOUBT'
  • But here, the longsword is the one that totally decapitated the dummy. TV for Gaming: Deadliest Warrior « Geek Related
  • As a 10-year-old kid Pauline used a stolen acetylene torch to decapitate the globe of a gumball machine.
  • The swings were made out of the hardest substances known to man, and could decapitate anyone foolhardy enough to walk past.
  • A bolt struck one of the assailants in the neck and nearly decapitated him.
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  • In battle, he is a clinical fighter who bisects and decapitates his opponents, lops off their limbs and disembowels them with surgical precision.
  • Consider: in 1973 a team of Finnish and American scientists decapitated a dozen human fetuses, each aborted live through hysterotomy, and kept the heads alive artificially for study. A Search For Limits
  • As a 10-year-old kid Pauline used a stolen acetylene torch to decapitate the globe of a gumball machine.
  • All our big fellows have been "decapitated" - & good & a good many fellback into ranks. Augusta County: Tony Pastor to Annie Harris, May 4, 1861
  • Ancroe broke his opponent's sword with his axe and then decapitated him.
  • ‘Remember, you will have decapitated the command and control for the military forces,’.
  • When I was in Baltimore, my first year, Bart Scott kind of decapitated him, and he came back in the game," Pryce said. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • A worker was decapitated when a lift plummeted down the shaft on top of him.
  • Because the structure of the Iraqi insurgency is horizontal as opposed to hierarchical, it cannot be decapitated.
  • Conservative MPs have most immediate reason to be alarmed by further advances for the Lib Dems, especially when it is coupled with an attempt to decapitate leading members of the shadow cabinet.
  • He then asked each volunteer to decapitate a white rat.
  • Out of the Blue's "Dead Gnome" line features garden gnomes with pistols in their mouths, or holding up the dripping heads of decapitated brethren, industriously sawing their own hands off, hanging from a gibbet, grinning glassily at the arrow that's pierced their heads, and so on. Boing Boing
  • But soon enough, Lucy begins to hear and see things – such as decapitated heads laying next to her in bed and nursery rhymes about her actions years ago. Strait-Jacket (1964)
  • They would have needed the Jaws of Life to get her out of the car if the windshield hadn't caved in and decapitated her.
  • They were to give war the kind of precision that would lower civilian deaths to the vanishing point and, as the neocons of the Bush administration would claim in the next decade, free the U.S. military to "decapitate" any regime we loathed. Tom Engelhardt: Why Military Dreams Fail -- and Why It Doesn't Matter
  • The commonly held belief among activists is that Canada, as an exporter of GM food and opponent of the Biosafety Protocol, deliberately tried to decapitate the anti-GM bloc.
  • My kids love to decapitate the lamb cake, last year's was the garotte. Lamb-entations
  • It was hit hard enough to decapitate him, but the ref hasn't noticed and he's given a goal kick.
  • After failing to launch a right-wing military coup in 1970, he committed hara-kiri, ritually disembowelling himself before being decapitated by an assistant.
  • And director Francesca Zambello kept a focus on storytelling so that the action was always clear, from the moment when the handsome captain of the guard, Narraboth, kills himself out of frustrated passion for the princess Salome to the moment when the princess, smeared with blood from the decapitated head she has just kissed, is punitively garrotted (rather than crushed by a shield) by another guardsman. Washington National Opera unveils a lively 'Salome'
  • Every nerve in his body seemed to tauten: He pulled out his wand, moved into the shadows beside the decapitated elf heads, and waited. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
  • The problem, though, is that you're not going to decapitate an organization like JI.
  • He waded in with his sword swinging, and felt the jar down his arm as it almost decapitated an animal.
  • A woman's car accidentally hits a truck while, in slow motion, a piece of metal crashes through the windshield and decapitates her.
  • The villagers erect a crude garrote of hog's gut and horse hair that catches the prisoner - if he is fortunate - in the neck and instantly decapitates him.
  • METHODS: The adult SD rats were anaesthetized and decapitated to obtain the whole olfactory bulb and then isolate olfactory nerve with a sterile operation.
  • Male frogs were anesthetized in tricaine methanesulfonate and then were decapitated and pithed.
  • Al-Hosayn, on the other hand, was slain and decapitated at Kerbela. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • We were led to believe that they were going to decapitate the army, decapitate the bureaucracy, put in a new regime relatively quickly and we would be out relatively quickly.
  • They were not merely murdered; they were decapitated and the heads taken by their assailant.
  • An eighth film is in the can for this year and ignores the fact that at the end of Halloween H20 Michael was literally decapitated.
  • One by one, live birds are hung by the feet on a moving line of hooks called shackles and mechanically stunned, decapitated, and scalded to remove the feathers.
  • I released at 35 yds and my thunderhead decapitated the bird. A turkey hunting question has me thinking about turkeys.
  • The Bush administration fanaticized about using shock and awe to "decapitate" the Iraqi regime, and then -- King Midas-like -- touching the country to make it prosperous, civil, and — most important for the Bush administration — compliant. Lew Rockwell: Iraq and Moral Corruption
  • Woman vicar death threat HATE-mail threats to decapitate a leading activist for women priests are being treated seriously by police.
  • Do not pass Go or collect 100 francs, go directly to the Bastille, where you will be decapitated by an angry mob of toothless old crones.
  • Frowning direfully, she viciously decapitated another shriveled set of blooms. The Ideal Bride
  • As a final gesture of revenge, Beowulf finds Grendel's body and decapitates him.
  • The Bush administration fanaticized about using shock and awe to "decapitate" the Iraqi regime, and then -- King Midas-like -- touching the country to make it prosperous, civil, and — most important for the Bush administration — compliant. Lew Rockwell: Iraq and Moral Corruption
  • The chief wasn't so lucky; he was decapitated and died.
  • According to the rebels 'Radio Vorgan monitored in Luanda, UNITA accused Angolan authorities of trying to "decapitate" the movement by military means by "setting traps" for its fighters. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • His horse threw him in a cavalry mêlée, and an equerry who helped him remount was decapitated by a cannon ball as he did so.
  • Another Charlottesville environmentalist was concerned about coal mining and claimed mountains were being "decapitated" by coal companies to which the Governor firmly stated that he was supportive of the coal industry because of jobs and the energy they provided. SWAC Girl
  • And director Francesca Zambello kept a focus on storytelling so that the action was always clear, from the moment when the handsome captain of the guard, Narraboth, kills himself out of frustrated passion for the princess Salome to the moment when the princess, smeared with blood from the decapitated head she has just kissed, is punitively garrotted (rather than crushed by a shield) by another guardsman. Washington National Opera unveils a lively 'Salome'
  • However, if imbricate structures of folds are truncated by low-angle thrusts, the decapitated upper portions of the systems should be found, carried off towards the foreland.
  • We were going to head up the riverfront boulevard, but drat the luck: the driver noted that the tunnel beneath the bridge was three inches too short, and any attempt to go through the passageway would decapitate the people on the upper desk.
  • I damn near laughed at the pathetic expression on his face as he holds up his decapitated hand!
  • The villagers erect a crude garrote of hog's gut and horse hair that catches the prisoner - if he is fortunate - in the neck and instantly decapitates him.
  • Everyone was very friendly and helpful too, apart from one Italian skier who almost decapitated me by turning very suddenly while carrying his skis on his shoulder.
  • Makayla said she mustered up more courage this year than last year, which could have been a challenge sitting next to her "decapitated" sister, who wore a homemade headless horseman costume. Greatfallstribune.com - SPORTS
  • If he loses, he is decapitated and his head mounted on a pike.
  • Fortunately, my hair was saved, like the guy on Grey's Anatomy who was kind of decapitated but they managed to fix him, otherwise my only choices were going to be either shaving it off or wearing a wig! Archive 2007-09-01
  • Finally, decapitated roots don't seem to show hydrotropism, which hints at the root caps playing a major role in this phenomena.
  • A decapitated body, a missing tinner, a disgruntled band of miners and a mad Saxon. Archive 2007-01-01
  • It wasn't too pretty. Cut to pieces with a whip, and almost decapitated.
  • Bush has refused to authorize an assassination attempt, though there have been U.S. efforts to "decapitate" the Iraqi leadership through air raids on Baghdad bunkers. 'His Head On A Plate'
  • It has been suggested that the place was a site for "sky burials", places where decapitated corpses were exposed to the elements for excarnation by vultures, presumably the reason they're pictured in the carvings. The Glittering Eye
  • Bolivian President Morales says army, police officials in contact with CIA; offers no proof Teenage girl decapitated 700 years ago reburied in English churchyard Hood not so good? Chicagotribune.com -
  • The chicks are clubbed to death and then decapitated.
  • The algae were decapitated, clamped with vice grips at their holdfasts, and secured to the bottom of a unidirectional current tank with an ordinary house brick.
  • Bush could decapitate Christianne Amanpour on CNN (though he'd probably prefer to do it on Fox News), and claim he's learned she's part of a sleeper cell and was about to recite a code word - and that would be legal according to Gonzalez, because he was acting as Commander in Chief on the War in Terror. Chris Durang: Congress, Don't Let the Decider Bomb Iran
  • A bullet often de-limbs, decapitates or disembodies an opponent, though the gore stops before organs start pouring across the floor. UGO.com - UnderGroundOnline
  • Gracer quickly decapitates it and makes a "squish" - inducing cut down the mid-line. The Brown Daily Herald RSS
  • Some threats to Mr Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history. Think Progress » Forgetting His Attacks On The Netroots, O’Reilly Says Media Are Using ‘Nuts’ To ‘Brand’ Tea Party As ‘Racists
  • Some people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
  • Rumours had it that a drayman delivering beer with his horse and cart was decapitated on his way through the passage.
  • This opening sprint is called the "joust," and if the respective jousters miraculously don't decapitate each other in the jockeying for first possession, the game is on. LJWorld.com stories: News
  • Britain's David Haye has said that he is going to "decapitate" John Ruiz in Saturday's WBA heavyweight … Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
  • Another climate impact comes faster than predicted: Himalayan glaciers "decapitated Joseph Romm: The Top 10 Global Warming Stories of 2008
  • Within days fly maggots are born and release an enzyme that decapitates their ant host.
  • Our willy-nilly attempts to "decapitate" Saddam's regime with bunker busters was only a small part of the shock-and-awe bombing campaign that sowed death and depleted-uranium dust (a cancer-causing, DNA-altering time bomb) throughout Iraq. Celebrity Carnage
  • My head and body flew in divergent directions and the traffic went nuts, cars crashing into each other as my blood spurted everywhere—not as much as a decapitated human might have, but impressive nonetheless. Crossed
  • He said certain people wanted to "decapitate" him and "render the organisation rudderless". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • At least you can take heart in the fact that if any of Labour's big names are 'decapitated' at the elections then they can't get back in via the list. Confusion in Montgomeryshire
  • The result is a highly decentralized, cellular, insular network of enemies that cannot be decapitated or stopped by the excision of a single cell.
  • There's an intriguing story in today's Telegraph about how the Tories plan to "decapitate" - that is, target and win the seats of - certain Labour ministers come the next election. Something the Tories shouldn't admit to
  • Let's see, the state wants to keep 10-12 year olds from buying games where they can mutilate and decapitate the opponent, showing war and gang violence, etc. High court accepts case over violent video games
  • METHODS: The adult SD rats were anaesthetized and decapitated to obtain the whole olfactory bulb and then isolate olfactory nerve with a sterile operation.
  • Sendero Luminoso has been decapitated, its leader Abimael Guzman is behind bars.
  • He spun, blocking an axe with the scabbard while the long sword decapitated a lich with a cutlass. Lord of the Isles
  • It was these very doubts and fears which led him to see and resee so frequently the dethroned Charles, and which at last drove the conscience-stricken Puritan into the sepulchre of the decapitated king, that he might gaze into the still face of the royal victim, whose death he had himself effected. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • He decapitates a stripper or two, assaults a bouncer, aerates a cop's throat, sets a bartender on fire, and generally wreaks havoc in a lumbering fashion that is saved only by virtue of its unintentional comedy. July 11th, 2005
  • A UN official has said aid workers are dealing with a disaster "like no other" in UN memory because the country had been "decapitated". BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
  • Though there was iconoclasm at the beginning, as zealots decapitated statues and the like in temples and shrines, this soon passed as sultans cracked down on it.
  • The High Court in Edinburgh heard how after he had strangled her with his bare hands he tried to decapitate her with a bread knife.
  • After dropping 35 ft, he hit a metal fence which decapitated him.
  • Three of the slain policemen were decapitated after being shot during clashes with demonstrators last week.
  • I tossed my Randall knife to one of the Marines just in time for him to unsheath it and brutally decapitate two nearly skeletal and naked creatures clawing for his flesh. Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
  • But I do see a clear pattern - a White House trying to decapitate another news organization.
  • Those captured are killed by a variety of means: some are hanged, some are decapitated, some are drawn and quartered, some are defenestrated (thrown from upper floor windows), some are put into sacks and thrown into the Loire to drown.
  • In a postarrest presentation by officials to the media, Mr. Jimenez acknowledged that he had killed several people, at least four of whom he decapitated. Youth Suspected as Cartel Hit Man
  • A worker was decapitated when a lift plummeted down the shaft on top of him.
  • He had been killed by a shotgun bullet that almost decapitated him.
  • BROWNSVILLE, March 19 — A Brownsville couple charged with killing their children allegedly choked and decapitated two daughters, washed the bloody mess, then had sex before slaughtering their 1-year-old son, police investigators said in court Tuesday. Lurid details of killings disclosed in court testimony
  • He never saw the blade swing through the air as it decapitated him.
  • The essence of this operation which began Wednesday a week ago was to decapitate the leadership and I'm sure that's still a very, very high objective.
  • Po, after KFP 1, took the Shaolin route from the Shaw Brothers, decided to go on one of those epic "mountain journeys" and ran into Uwe Boll dressed in Spartan gear weeping over his latest epic failure of video game to movie disasters … Po, feeling a sense passion, not to mention outrage at a possiblely gay film maker dressed in "manly" attire … decapitates Uwe and saves the gear … More Sequels: The Host, Kung Fu Panda, 300, Hellboy and More! « FirstShowing.net
  • She was decapitated in a dreadful automobile accident.
  • They twice attempted to decapitate the legitimate, democratically elected UK government.

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