blood and guts

Example Sentences

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All the squidgy toys and soft baby blankets and consumable cuteness is a huge denial of the blood-and-guts experience of birth.

From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2018

This new book puts the blood-and-guts where they belong: in medical history.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2017

Those who lament that exciting singing is dead, take heart, because the young singers onstage at the Lisner Auditorium proved that thesis wrong with some thrillingly sung, blood-and-guts performances.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2016

In the ring, at least, he exerts a civilizing influence on boxing; his virtuosic, punctilious style can make the sport’s old blood-and-guts ethos seem obsolete.

From The New Yorker • May 18, 2015

A woman—presumably Chip’s mom—said unhappily, “You always have to watch the blood-and-guts shows.”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix