Executioners is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Executioners meaning
plural of executioner
Using Executioners
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of executioner
- In the example corpus, executioners often appears in combinations such as: the executioners.
Context around Executioners
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Executioners
- In this selection, "executioners" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, top, cruel, public, having, themselves and relented stand out and add context to how "executioners" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the executioners tie weluhn and as cruel executioners and suicide. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "executioners" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with executioners
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Until then, Lippert had been one of the few executioners of the purge to evade trial. (16 words)
The official executioners spared Kunala and he became a wandering singer accompanied by his favourite wife Kanchanmala. (17 words)
She was led into the forest to be put to death, but her executioners relented and there abandoned her. (19 words)
What she saw was four men who each had immense power, some granted to them by the planet-eater Galactus, and had decided to take on the roles of judge, jury, and executioners themselves. (34 words)
Schaff, David Schley, John Huss: his life, teachings and death, after five hundred years, (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915), p. 257 Anecdotally, it has been claimed that the executioners had trouble intensifying the fire. (34 words)
Iran remains one of the world's top executioners, having put to death at least 203 prisoners since the start of this year alone, according to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights. (33 words)
Example sentences (11)
Iran remains one of the world's top executioners, having put to death at least 203 prisoners since the start of this year alone, according to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights.
When we find the mouth with which to tell the story, we will understand how we sought statesmen but were rewarded with executioners.
A whistleblower deputy suing the county also came forward this year and identified Vega and Hernandez as prospective members of the Executioners, a deputy gang he has said controls Compton station.
What she saw was four men who each had immense power, some granted to them by the planet-eater Galactus, and had decided to take on the roles of judge, jury, and executioners themselves.
Central Asia’s children were integrated into the military machine of the Caliphate as cruel executioners and suicide bombers, becoming an ideological tool in the struggle for leadership in the global jihad.
During a time when there were 241 capital offences, more prisoners died from 'gaol fever' than were put to death by all the public executioners in the realm.
Schaff, David Schley, John Huss: his life, teachings and death, after five hundred years, (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915), p. 257 Anecdotally, it has been claimed that the executioners had trouble intensifying the fire.
She was led into the forest to be put to death, but her executioners relented and there abandoned her.
The official executioners spared Kunala and he became a wandering singer accompanied by his favourite wife Kanchanmala.
They leave the tram at the terminus and the executioners tie Weluhn to a tree in von Vittlar's mother's garden and prepare to machine-gun him.
Until then, Lippert had been one of the few executioners of the purge to evade trial.
Common combinations with executioners
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: