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
“If somebody’s looking for blood and guts, we are not the place. It’s about the surprise.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2019
“I got involved in the blood and guts and DNA of the personalities of the people. I began to realize that the story was remarkable.”
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2019
Surgery, meanwhile, is divided into a few camps: well-lit Grey’s Anatomy–style operating rooms; plastic surgery patients with Sharpie-lined skin; and a few close-ups of real surgeries—and the requisite blood and guts.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2017
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
