blood bath

Example Sentences

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"They're basically like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They're gold dust, but I think it's a bit of a blood bath to get tickets," she said.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2024

Is Broadway facing a bonanza or a blood bath?

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024

Will Arbery’s “Corsicana,” which opened on Wednesday at Playwrights Horizons, is that second kind of play; if its story began any earlier than it does, it would be an emotional blood bath.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

The opera has sounded scarier and more chaotic — its blood bath met with bombast in many interpretations — but Runnicles insisted on the possibility of dramatic momentum at a more restrained scale.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2022

Under the British Raj there didn�t seem to be much evidence of the inter-religious hostility that would result in such a blood bath at Independence and partition in 1948.��

From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by Cox, John