bloodless

Example Sentences

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But it does promote order by redirecting the ambitious few into what Mr. Mansfield calls “the bloodless killing of commerce” while reducing the material deprivation that encourages discontent among the many poor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Barre seized power in a bloodless coup in 1969.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

For him it was a fine art, as it was for the Romans and the Greeks, not the bloodless work of engineers and applied math.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Speaking to The Times of London, King said he required the upcoming film adaptation to show blood, calling the bloodless violence of superhero movies “pornographic.”

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2025

I saw him before he died: his body was all swollen, very much like mine, with bloodless skin that looked like white rubber.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung