executioners in English

noun
1
an official who carries out a sentence of death on a legally condemned person.
It had been difficult to find an executioner to carry out the sentence.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "executioners" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "executioners", or refer to the context using the word "executioners" in the English Dictionary.

1. Six executioners and man with inkhorn (1-11)

2. The baffled executioners were severely reprimanded before getting another crack at Vincent.

3. 4 Blood constantly soaked the scaffold, making it almost too slippery for the executioners to stand up.

4. Synonyms for Bravoes include assassins, hitmen, killers, murderers, desperados, butchers, thugs, slayers, homicides and executioners

5. The official executioners spared Kunala and he became a wandering singer accompanied by his favourite wife Kanchanmala.

6. There are cynical attempts to make victims and executioners equal or make heroes out of Nazis and their accomplices.

7. The time is approaching when the Babylonians, as Jehovah’s executioners, will come against Jerusalem, their chariots stirring up clouds of dust just like a storm wind.

8. After the murder of Perdiccas in Egypt by his own soldiers (320), the Macedonian generals condemned Eumenes to death, assigning Antipater and Antigonus as his executioners.

9. As Blake rests under Ethan's house, Marta, an imposing woman wielding a large pickaxe and who is one of Knoth's executioners, breaks into the home and kills Ethan after accusing him of heresy.

10. McCormick described the concert as "a dazzling hi-tech, multimedia melange of light and sound, with eye and mind boggling set pieces featuring fantasy medieval executioners, martial art fighting geishas, pole dancing nuns, simulated sex shows."

11. The Arsonist can be a big threat to Survivors, Amnesiacs, Witches and Executioners, so these roles might lynch you even if the fact of you being known as an Arsonist is revealed

12. They are loners, preferring to live and kill on their own rather than form tribes of their own kind, yet it isn’t uncommon to find small bands of Bugbears working together, or dwelling in goblin or hobgoblin tribes where they function as elite guards or executioners.