How to Use bad blood in a Sentence

bad blood

noun
  • There's been a lot of bad blood between them since their quarrel.
  • So there has been bad blood between the two of these in the past.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
  • But fans of the show can rest assured that there's no lasting bad blood.
    Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The only bad blood between them was on the floor, from countless battles.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2020
  • That bad blood aside, though, were the two groups themselves really rivals?
    Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 July 2024
  • After three nasty campaigns, plenty of distrust and bad blood remains.
    Aron Heller, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • There are several reasons being cited for this apparent spurt of bad blood.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Giuliani and Biden have bad blood that goes back to 2007, when both were running for president.
    Dareh Gregorian, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • There's no bad blood between exes Jennifer Lopez and Diddy (a.k.a.
    Rachel Yang, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Meanwhile, bad blood has been brewing between Zhang and Jedrzejcyk.
    cleveland, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Despite the complications, Cavallari stressed in her Instagram post that there is no bad blood between her and Cutler.
    Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Fast forward to 2022, and the bad blood is all washed away.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2022
  • There was no bad blood between the teams, as was the case in years past.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2023
  • There’s bad blood right now between Thomas and the Saints.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The two title fights in the desert were tainted with bad blood.
    John Marshall, ajc, 13 June 2021
  • There’s no bad blood between us, which is like the best thing.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 12 June 2022
  • There is some bad blood between Lily and Eileen on one side and Chrissie on the other.
    Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
  • The woman said there was bad blood between the suspect and her boyfriend.
    cleveland, 21 Dec. 2021
  • There's no bad blood between Jae and I. Jae has looked out for me the past couple of years.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • There is bad blood between these two teams, and the Steelers will play hard in this one.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Riley, who had led the Knicks for three seasons, had become the coach of the Heat, and there was bad blood over the move.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • There’s some bad blood in the combination of Rock, Smith, and the Oscars.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Kawhi Leonard shouldn't be back from his knee injury, but there is bad blood between the teams.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
  • What France’s richest man got instead was a lot of bad blood between the two sides.
    Angelina Rascouet, Bloomberg.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Ahead of the premiere, Parker denied bad blood—at least on her end.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2022
  • If there was any bad blood between the two in the past, Garth only had nice things to say about Alba now.
    Rachel Yang, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Martha Stewart says there's no bad blood between her and Katie Couric!
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • And anyway, as the XO team sees it, their artist shouldn’t have incited any bad blood.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2021
  • There's no bad blood between Florence Pugh and Zach Braff.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Jan. 2023
  • There's no longer bad blood between Charlie Sheen and his ex-wife Denise Richards.
    Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023

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