bloody

Example Sentences

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Show me a country that doesn’t have a bloody past.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Starbucks Korea's chief executive has been sacked over a campaign perceived as referring to a bloody historical incident.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Washington later reiterated its neutrality over the contested sovereignty of the Falkland Islands between Argentina and Britain, which fought a short but bloody war over the archipelago in 1982 that Britain won.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Instead, he delivers his hair-raising message—that we’re staring at “a humiliating and bloody defeat” if we go to war with China—in a jaunty, clever and sometimes breathless book.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

I felt my heart limping in my chest, and was revolted by it, a pitiful muscle, sick and bloody, pulsing against my ribs.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt