blood-stained

Example Sentences

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Reading Borough Council inspectors also found light switches and taps were unwashed and blood-stained cardboard on the floor.

From BBC • May 10, 2025

Over time, Dayton toned down the rhetoric; rather than polemicizing about blood-stained roads, he encouraged other scientists to “carefully and conscientiously amass the facts and findings.”

From Slate • May 25, 2024

On Sunday, Barker shared graphic photos of his blood-stained pants and sanguinary phalanges, which took a beating after Blink-182’s set in Manchester, England.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2023

In Busan, Mr. Yoon said in an address that South Korea’s foundation rested on “the blood-stained military uniforms” of the troops who fought in the U.S.-led UN Command.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2023

This was always followed by Collins’s Ode on the Passions, wherein I particularly venerated Mr. Wopsle as Revenge throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the War-denouncing trumpet with a withering look.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens