How to Use bloodshed in a Sentence

bloodshed

noun

• Years of violence and bloodshed have left much of the country in ruins.
• Maybe this is the thing that will bond them since bloodshed hasn’t.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
• His point seemed clear enough, and it was echoed by the others, who pleaded with the president to avoid bloodshed and destruction in the capital.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• This one-two, from bloodshed to beauty, dilutes any sense of hopelessness a visitor might understandably feel.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• The big picture: One year after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, the bloodshed continues with no end in sight.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
• In the article chronicling the events of the parade, the Post continued to rely on the vehicle as the apparent cause of the bloodshed.
  — Fox News, 25 Nov. 2021
• Later came an eerily empty Olympics, soon followed by the chaos and bloodshed signaling Afghanistan’s collapse and the Taliban’s rise.
  — Times Photography Staff, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• Efforts to curb gun violence using existing laws grew more urgent last spring with increasing bloodshed both nationally and locally.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2021
• The plaintiffs, all from Charlottesville, described broken bones, the bloodshed and emotional trauma resulting from the mayhem.
  — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2021
• The full scale of the bloodshed is still unclear, but Kazakh security forces confirmed that dozens of protestors and 12 police officers were killed.
  — Eloise Barry, Time, 6 Jan. 2022
• A few hours later, authorities say, Ethan Crumbley moved from ominous words and drawings into actual bloodshed.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• The full extent of the bloodshed in the Kyiv area has yet to emerge.
  — chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• Nayarit was then awash in the bloodshed of the Sinaloa-BLO war.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
• The raid, coupled with the high death toll, raised the prospect of further bloodshed.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
• And now soccer is joined with everything else: the shock and the bloodshed and the refugees.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2022
• When Atkins, who went by the nickname Sadie, emerged from the house, Kasabian begged her to stop the bloodshed.
  — Elaine Woo Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 2 Mar. 2023
• Into the suffering, the bloodshed, and the agony of civilians there.
  — Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• Some are angry that more isn’t being done to halt the bloodshed.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• The clashes heightened concerns that the protests would spread and lead to more bloodshed.
  — Julie Turkewitz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• Gang violence is still blamed for much of the bloodshed.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The strike on Haniyeh's family is the latest bloodshed in a war with no end in sight.
  — Tia Goldenberg, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
• Despite the bloodshed, neither side seems inclined to end the war.
  — Dan Lamothe and Isabelle Khurshudyan, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
• The bloodshed again drew a rebuke from the U.S., this time directed at Ethiopia.
  — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 12 July 2022
• The reprieve from the bloodshed — while still in the early stages — has many rooting for the young president.
  — Annie Correal Federico Rios, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Our kids and teachers are hardening to the gunfire and bloodshed that is a part of their lives.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
• The bloodshed spurred new discussion about hate crime laws.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
• Three years after the end of the Civil War, many Americans were still struggling with the scale of the bloodshed.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2022
• The way to bring Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, and end the bloodshed, is to defeat him on the ground.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 June 2022
• It's now been 25 years since the OG Woodsboro murders, but that doesn't mean Ghostface is done with the bloodshed just yet.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 10 Mar. 2023
• Sheriff’s officials have tied much of the bloodshed in the area to the Florencia 13 gang.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024