blood-soaked
Example Sentences
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Another police officer, Richard Scott, who helped gather the bodies of those killed, told the inquiry he binned his blood-soaked clothing after his shift to try to "disassociate from the scene".
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2025
Days after winning her first Golden Globe, Moore scored her first individual SAG Awards nomination for her lead turn in “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat’s blood-soaked fable about fear and self-loathing in Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2025
He is known for his blood-soaked morality tales set in the American Southwest, swaggering works like “All the Pretty Horses” and “No Country for Old Men,” and for his spare post-apocalyptic epic, “The Road.”
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022
That useful fiction from humanity’s infancy solved, with varying degrees of occasionally blood-soaked success, the problem of sovereignty: Where was it to be located?
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2022
Just as the British abolitionists shamed people into not buying the blood-soaked crystals forged in slavery, he told Indians not to buy goods manufactured by their colonial master.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
