Executioner

//ˌɛksəˈkjuʃənɚ//

"Executioner" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The mouth is the executioner and the doctor of the body.

The executioner fondled his hatchet and smiled complacently. He felt he was a cut above the rest.

The executioner struck off her feet with the red shoes, and the shoes danced away with the little feet across the field into the deep forest.

I'm your doctor, not your executioner.

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

The executioner is responsible for doing the dirty work.

The executioner is always cowardly.

While the Duke of Alba in the Netherlands ruled with the axe of the executioner, Cervantes, in Spain, wrote his Don Quixote, and Lope de Vega, who himself held a post connected with the Inquisition, produced his admirable comedies.

Miroslav has been hired to work as an executioner’s assistant.

Miroslav helped the executioner.

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He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace.

Underpinning that power was a reign of terror the like of which Chechens had not seen since the days of Stalin. Even the Russian contraktniki, or freelance fighters, were not as feared as Mr Kadyrov's private army of kidnappers, torturers and executioners were.

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