blood-soaked
Example Sentences
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Days after winning her first Golden Globe, Moore scored her first individual SAG Awards nomination for her lead turn in “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat’s blood-soaked fable about fear and self-loathing in Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2025
The peaceful rural village of Repton in Derbyshire is thought to have witnessed a pivotal blood-soaked moment in British history - and an expert says it deserves national recognition.
From BBC • Aug. 17, 2024
The books, which have intertwined narratives focusing on a brilliant, tortured young mathematical prodigy and her brother, represent a stylistic and thematic break from McCarthy’s earlier blood-soaked morality tales, Alexandra Alter writes.
From New York Times • Oct. 17, 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
She is unable to speak, to allow the nurses to help exchange her blood-soaked gown for a fresh one.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
