blood-soaked
Example Sentences
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In one sense, she’s dealing with a rights issue too painful to be aggressively aestheticized, but she’s also exploring a blood-soaked injustice that can’t be treated conventionally.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
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
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
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
Despite being shot, Roosevelt gave his fifty-minute speech in a blood-soaked shirt before going to the hospital.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
