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 blood-soaked history of Chile — not dissimilar from that of most post-colonial nations — receives a searing filmic indictment in this striking western.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 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
The United States has now met President Biden’s goal, announced in March, to legally admit “up to” 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Vladimir Putin’s blood-soaked invasion.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2022
More than one million men fought in what history calls the First Battle of the Marne, which raged for eight blood-soaked days in September.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
