Sentence examples for breaking the neck from inspiring English sources
Hanging, execution by strangling or breaking the neck by a suspended noose.
After some minutes of instruction on the finer points of "locating the seam" and "breaking the neck" and two failed tries, the junior swordsman finally succeeded in decapitating a bottle of Duc de Romet's "prestige brut," to be shared with his companion.
But as I watched American Marines and Iraqi citizens breaking the neck of the Saddam Hussein statue, my joy over the prospect of democracy was mixed with a fear of future tyranny under a government made up of members of the Iraqi opposition and their American advisers.
Test mice breaking the neck to death after induced by ConA 24 h later, removing the liver, observing the hepatic pathological changes of liver using morphologic method.
The cougar is capable of breaking the neck of some of its smaller prey with a strong bite and momentum bearing the animal to the ground.
The numerous tweets — which all link to previous Phoenix New Times stories — describe instances like Arpaio calling his state's own jail a "concentration camp," jailers breaking the neck of a paraplegic man, the failure of the sheriff's office to investigate hundreds of sex abuse cases and a botched SWAT raid in which deputies allegedly laughed as a puppy burned to death.
In falcons these assist in breaking the necks of prey, but their purpose in kites is obscure.
They spent days just walking around breaking the necks of chickens.
For immobilisation, Falconini rely more strongly on strike impact and breaking the necks of their prey, having evolved a 'tooth' on the beak to aid in doing so.
I was at a performance where his violin broke — the neck of the instrument cracked off.
