bloody

Example Sentences

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It was a spectacle, and a slightly bloody one at that.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026

KYIV, Ukraine—The sight that met Bishop Avraamiy when he arrived at the Dormition Cathedral here shortly after 2 a.m. on Monday was like something torn from the pages of the Bible—or Ukraine’s own bloody history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

And, in its own bloody way, MMA can be beautiful: humans in extremis, rising to the occasion, pushing past their own boundaries to accomplish the impossible under the most adverse of conditions.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2026

With cemeteries inaccessible during Sudan’s bloody civil war, residents of Khartoum resorted to burying their dead in just about any spare plot of land.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

During the French and Indian War, he had botched one mission, witnessed a bloody massacre of British troops, and then been sidelined as the conflict moved away from Virginia.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis