How to Use blood money in a Sentence

blood money

noun

• They accepted blood money in exchange for the murderer's execution.
• Now go after the NRA and the politicians that take the blood money.
  — Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• These sanctions will help stop the flow of blood money ...
  — Nima Elbagir and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 11 June 2018
• That would amount to blood money, in the opinion of some critics.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
• That’s terror money; that’s blood money that’s not in their hands.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2020
• So is payment, and David brings 1,000 euros along as blood money.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2021
• To many people — make that most people — signing on to the LIV is accepting blood money.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
• Dems take blood money from the NRA and gun manufacturers, too.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 May 2022
• Those seeking to bring blood money into Britain, however, need not have looked too far.
  — Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• And the op-ed pages have been suffused with claims that the NRA has bought Republicans with blood money, stifling the popular will and thwarting democracy in the process.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
• As an extra touch of morbid absurdism, if enough people text in support of a pardon, and Mona in fact absolves, the show’s sponsors will pay the blood money.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• Those hands are your hands — stained with the blood money of the National Rifle Association.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
• Fame and violence are indelibly connected, and the stars of the screen must be punished for the wealth that funds their sumptuous life, which amounts to nothing but blood money.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
• The latest round of western economic reprisals against Russia are shining a harsh light on Formula 1’s love of blood money.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2022
• Done with adults who claim children are invaluable — though clearly not as invaluable as pockets filled with NRA blood money.
  — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Her group was active in pushing the state to stop issuing permits for the bulldozing of tortoises in exchange for what many decried as blood money.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• The district attorney is busy running her re-election campaign and collecting police blood money to do so.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 15 May 2018
• For the politicians and others who feed at this sordid trough, accepting the NRA’s blood money and doing its bidding needs to be seen on the same moral level as an official who associates with, say, white supremacists.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Optimists may even glean some reassurance from the willingness of Iranian jurisprudence to deem women worth 100 camels in blood money.
  — Bobby Ghosh, Twin Cities, 8 Aug. 2019
• There is precedent for this portrayal in the Bible, as some will recall that Judas immediately regrets his betrayal, returns the blood money and commits suicide.
  — Jonathan Merritt, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
• An important subtext is the question of blood money that someone convicted of murder or manslaughter must pay to the victim's family, but this will go over the heads of international audiences.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2017
• Seldom Seen, still living Kansas’s Plessy v. Ferguson segregation, as a lonely man counting his blood money.
  — Armond White, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• But some convicts have been rescued by the practice of blood money, which their victims’ families choose to receive as restitution out of compassion, poverty, pressure or another motivation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024