blood-soaked
Example Sentences
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The blood-soaked history of Chile — not dissimilar from that of most post-colonial nations — receives a searing filmic indictment in this striking western.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024
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
He is known for his blood-soaked morality tales set in the American Southwest, swaggering works like “All the Pretty Horses” and “No Country for Old Men,” and for his spare post-apocalyptic epic, “The Road.”
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 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
Americans knew the blood-soaked history of the Haitian revolution a few decades earlier.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
