Sentence examples for said executed from inspiring English sources

He fled to Persia, where Darius III, it is said, executed him for criticizing preparations taken for the Battle of Issus.

When it landed, the officers moved in, but they were intercepted by soldiers, who, Mr. Braun said, "executed them on the airstrip".

"I wasn't at that lunch," Paul said, executing a rather inelegant pivot.

"The only problem is," she said, "executing is a little harder than these companies expect".

"Look, those big, full eyes!" Kahn said, executing a complete kvell.

"Yes, but can your fiancé do this?" he said, executing a perfect back somersault and landing on his feet with a grin.

In 2002, he wrote the majority opinion in Atkins v. Virginia, which said executing mentally retarded people violates the Eighth Amendment.

"There was a point I was skating every day of the week, minus Sunday," she said, executing a neat crossover step.

Haitham al-Haddad, an imam from the Islamic Sharia Council, said executing the British hostage would be "totally haram (forbidden), impermissible, prohibited according to sharia for a number of reasons".

Islamic State jihadists engaged in a bloody rampage in the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Kobani and its environs on Friday, officials said, executing at least 142 civilians before withdrawing as vicious fighting continued in the town for a second day.

But Roberts said "execute the office of President to the United States faithfully" — which drew an amused smile from Obama.