Example Sentences

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The first decades of his life were spent under palace arrest in Istanbul, meant to keep him from vying for power—as Ottoman princes did, bloodily, in centuries past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Even though those uprisings were generally bloodily put down in the end, the overall trend was that laborers had to be paid more; their labor was simply more valuable.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Whether this would take the form of a constitutional monarchy, as eventually came to the fore in Britain, or an outright republic, as bloodily forged in Russia and France, was anyone’s guess.

From Time • Oct. 13, 2016

The virus is spread between humans through direct contact with infected bloodily fluids.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2014

The high-priest sick from qualms, with his raiment bloodily dashed; The thief with branded palms, and the liar with cheeks abashed.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles