blood and guts

Example Sentences

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Before seeing “The Substance,” I considered myself to be generally thick-skinned about blood and guts.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2024

“People who love horror, who are so desensitized to blood and guts, they can work in restaurants because not much bothers them.”

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2021

So the theory is not very well supported, but it’s a sufficiently abstract argument that it gets you off the hook from dealing with all the blood and guts and feces.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

“If somebody’s looking for blood and guts, we are not the place. It’s about the surprise.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2019

He knows that by spring, this mass of blood and guts and feathers will become a rich, black, sweet-smelling compost ready for him to spread onto the pastures and turn back into grass.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan