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
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 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
The United States has now met President Biden’s goal, announced in March, to legally admit “up to” 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Vladimir Putin’s blood-soaked invasion.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2022
Although I didn’t really understand it at the time, like Colin Powell, he was telling me that our blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn’t have to be its slave.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
