blood bath

Example Sentences

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"They're basically like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They're gold dust, but I think it's a bit of a blood bath to get tickets," she said.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2024

Unrealistic projections led to a three-year blood bath of red ink, but the company succeeded in designing a computer to regulate the output of oil refineries.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022

Mr. Partnoy said Mr. Mitts’s research focused on the short term, which can be “an absolute blood bath for short sellers.”

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2022

Technically it’s a comedy, ending sans blood bath and with couples reunited.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022

Under the British Raj there didn�t seem to be much evidence of the inter-religious hostility that would result in such a blood bath at Independence and partition in 1948.��

From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by Cox, John