bloody

Example Sentences

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Starbucks Korea's chief executive has been sacked over a campaign perceived as referring to a bloody historical incident.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

George H. W. Bush's February 1989 visit was overshadowed by growing calls for democratic reform in China that would culminate in massive protests and a bloody crackdown later that year.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

But horror stories have been around forever — and never in such profusion as they are now, to the point that there is little new under the bloody sun.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

Instead, he delivers his hair-raising message—that we’re staring at “a humiliating and bloody defeat” if we go to war with China—in a jaunty, clever and sometimes breathless book.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

During the French and Indian War, he had botched one mission, witnessed a bloody massacre of British troops, and then been sidelined as the conflict moved away from Virginia.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis