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

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

It’s a stylistic and thematic break from McCarthy’s earlier blood-soaked morality tales set in the American Southwest, The Times’s 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