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
“The Substance,” Fargeat’s follow-up to her 2017 debut feature, “Revenge,” is a blood-soaked body-horror film that cleverly confronts aging in Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024
The region is full of contradictions like these, both rustic and industrial, beautiful and blood-soaked, enormously important to the national economy but in terminal decline.
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 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
