bloodthirsty

Example Sentences

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Jack O’Connell, Lola Kirke and Peter Dreimanis — the actors who terrorized the juke joint as bloodthirsty vampires in the movie — also snaked their way onto the stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” is an apologia for Uganda’s Idi Amin, a bloodthirsty tyrant like few others in modern history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Justifying why this pile of helplessness would be placed in competition with a group of bloodthirsty adult men might mean we’re focusing on the wrong thing.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025

It left some viewers perplexed, as they questioned what a bloodthirsty plant had to do with Christmas.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2024

I did not want to imagine what would happen if her true identity were discovered by these bloodthirsty conspirators.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan