blood-soaked
Example Sentences
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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
Sitting in front of his computer’s camera in a room overflowing with books, Ripstein invokes another true-crime enthusiast to explain his complex attraction to the blood-soaked genre.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023
That useful fiction from humanity’s infancy solved, with varying degrees of occasionally blood-soaked success, the problem of sovereignty: Where was it to be located?
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2022
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
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
