bloody

Example Sentences

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Show me a country that doesn’t have a bloody past.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Washington later reiterated its neutrality over the contested sovereignty of the Falkland Islands between Argentina and Britain, which fought a short but bloody war over the archipelago in 1982 that Britain won.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

She sent a video of the bloody cut to her primary-care doctor, and he told her how to dress it and avoid infection.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Those from north of Paris and south of Brussels did the digging, ploughing, assembling and many of them the fighting, on these fields which saw such bloody battles.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

“She didn’t kill herself, that’s the only bloody thing that matters, isn’t it?”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier