EXECUTION in a Sentence

Learn EXECUTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

327 example sentences for EXECUTION, such as:

1. She's an executive in a computer company.
2. A month or two later they executed the king.
3. The board disavowed the action of the executive.
4. The whole play was executed with great precision.
5. All computers execute the instruction as expected.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXECUTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
execution
 n.  accomplishment; putting into practice; putting a person to death
Classic Sentence: (201 in 14 pages)
1  The day for the execution of the Turk was fixed, but on the night previous to it he quitted his prison and before morning was distant many leagues from Paris.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
2  In Britain only could he further the execution of his plan.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
3  But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
4  It could have betokened nothing short of the anticipated execution of some noted culprit, on whom the sentence of a legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
5  When Marianne was recovered, the schemes of amusement at home and abroad, which Sir John had been previously forming, were put into execution.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
6  had put in a funereal execution and taken possession.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXV
7  We agreed that it should be carried into execution, and that Provis should never recognize us if we came below Bridge, and rowed past Mill Pond Bank.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
8  After three days more of recovery, I went down to the old place to put it in execution.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
9  I felt extremely flattered by this arrangement, and we commenced carrying it into execution that very evening.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
10  I am far from sure that I believed there was anything hopeful in it, but my mind was thoroughly made up that it must be carried into execution.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
11  A plan had occurred to me for passing the night, which I was going to carry into execution.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
12  There was an execution put into our house, for rent.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
13  Not that her happiness was of long duration,' pursued Traddles, 'for, unfortunately, within a week another execution came in.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
14  'Then he must be constantly set free again, and taken out of execution,' said my aunt.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
15  As I advanced in the execution of this task, I felt it more and more, and roused my utmost energies to do it well.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
16  The manager assistant came here to execute a few small commissions for the manager.
17  All computers execute the instruction as expected.
18  The plan is to have Baumgartner leave the space capsule and execute a few summersaults before diving headfirst out of the stratosphere at more than 1,100 kilometres per hour and break the sound barrier.
19  A month or two later they executed the king.
20  The whole play was executed with great precision.
21  I don't support the death penalty, but if people are to be executed, it should be done humanely.
22  'Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot.'
23  Irish patriot who fought for the rights of Irish Catholics and was executed for his part in a bungled uprising against the British.
24  Almost all projects borrow heavily from bitcoin and ethereum, another blockchain that comes with snippets of code that encapsulate business rules which are executed automatically if certain events occur.
25  The board disavowed the action of the executive.
26  A successful job search needs to be as well organised as any other executive task.
27  She is now a senior executive having worked her way up through the company.
28  Politics is usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
29  A good executive usually gets on well with people.
30  She's an executive in a computer company.