blood-soaked

Example Sentences

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In one sense, she’s dealing with a rights issue too painful to be aggressively aestheticized, but she’s also exploring a blood-soaked injustice that can’t be treated conventionally.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

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

Speaking of blood-soaked savagery, it’s a safe bet that you won’t find any in a movie based on a Paul Auster book.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

Connecting the National Assembly on one side and Place de la Concorde, once blood-soaked from guillotined bodies during the Revolution, on the other, the bridge is built from stones salvaged from the Bastille prison.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 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