How to Use bloody in a Sentence

bloody

1 of 2 adjective

• He hit me and gave me a bloody nose.
• The first video showed a straight-faced Griffin slowly lifting the bloody head.
  — chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
• Griffin, after CNN dropped her over the bloody Trump mask, changed her tone.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 6 June 2017
• Farm-to-table restaurant The Cottage on Dixie will set up a bloody mary bar.
  — Matt McCall, Daily Southtown, 26 Apr. 2017
• And in recent weeks, rallies in the city of Berkeley have devolved into bloody street brawls.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• The video, circulated online, shows a gunman and a bloody, lifeless body of a man lying on the ground next to a desk.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2017
• This is going to be a long, bloody, and (yes) partisan political fight, and god bless it for that.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 June 2017
• Ditto the likes of ****Efraim Rios Montt, who staged a coup and ran Guatemala three decades ago during a horrendously bloody period.
  — The Hive, 14 June 2017
• The Edict was a proclamation intended to impose peace between Protestants and Catholics in France after years of bloody war.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
• A man who threw bloody knives — and a microwave oven — at police during a standoff Tuesday night in Hartford has been arrested.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 19 May 2017
• But the most important takeaway here is that the Old Gods—brought to American shores thanks to belief—demand bloody sacrifices.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 30 Apr. 2017
• For Mother's Day, Jennifer Lawrence decided to gift the world with something ... personal: her own bloody heart, freshly removed from her still-gaping chest cavity.
  — Chelsea Stone, Glamour, 15 May 2017
• Other side effects include bloody or black stools, temporary or permanent damage to kidney function, and at high levels, brain effects.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 18 May 2017
• The generals, outraged by the fraternization, come down hard, sending soldiers away to newer, bloodier battles.
  — Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2017
• Since taking office in June, Mr. Duterte has embarked on a bloody campaign against drugs — particularly shabu, a cheap form of methamphetamine — that has left about 2,000 people killed by police officers, and hundreds of others by vigilantes.
  — Felipe Villamor, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2016
• Theirs is a harrowing tale of life on the razor’s edge, knitting together false identities, slipping between torturers’ bloody fingers and struggling to maintain a decency commensurate to their cause.
  — Ron Charles, The Mercury News, 7 June 2017
• Amid hundreds of election complaints, local news outlets have reported of vote-buying, telephone threats to discourage voting, and even bloody pigs’ heads placed outside opposition party offices.
  — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
• Muslim separatists have waged a bloody insurgency in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces, the only ones with Muslim majorities in the predominantly Buddhist country.
  — Kaweewit Kaewjinda, The Seattle Times, 22 May 2017
• He hit me and gave me a bloody nose.
• The first video showed a straight-faced Griffin slowly lifting the bloody head.
  — chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
• Griffin, after CNN dropped her over the bloody Trump mask, changed her tone.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 6 June 2017
• Farm-to-table restaurant The Cottage on Dixie will set up a bloody mary bar.
  — Matt McCall, Daily Southtown, 26 Apr. 2017
• And in recent weeks, rallies in the city of Berkeley have devolved into bloody street brawls.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• The video, circulated online, shows a gunman and a bloody, lifeless body of a man lying on the ground next to a desk.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2017
• This is going to be a long, bloody, and (yes) partisan political fight, and god bless it for that.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 June 2017
• Ditto the likes of ****Efraim Rios Montt, who staged a coup and ran Guatemala three decades ago during a horrendously bloody period.
  — The Hive, 14 June 2017
• The Edict was a proclamation intended to impose peace between Protestants and Catholics in France after years of bloody war.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
• A man who threw bloody knives — and a microwave oven — at police during a standoff Tuesday night in Hartford has been arrested.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 19 May 2017
• But the most important takeaway here is that the Old Gods—brought to American shores thanks to belief—demand bloody sacrifices.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 30 Apr. 2017
• For Mother's Day, Jennifer Lawrence decided to gift the world with something ... personal: her own bloody heart, freshly removed from her still-gaping chest cavity.
  — Chelsea Stone, Glamour, 15 May 2017

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bloody

2 of 2 verb

• He hit me and bloodied my nose.
• The men in white entered through the open car doors and bloodied them.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• His helmet was knocked off and his nose bloodied on the play.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2019
• The wreck left him scraped, scarred and bloodied but with no broken bones.
  — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 June 2018
• The bitter strike stretched 100 days, and both sides emerged bloodied.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• The Jazz bloodied their nose and stole the home court the Rockets had spent six months earning.
  — Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle, 4 May 2018
• In the 21-minute stream, Manesar asks the men, their faces bloodied, for their names and hometowns.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• And Tatis’ knees and elbows, so to speak, were good and bloodied by the time May arrived.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
• The woman was bloodied, and her hair was cut by the blades of the arrow, the sheriff’s office said.
  — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2020
• His truck was bloodied, his right arm dripping and painful.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• Bellemare left the ice for a time, bloodied, but returned.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018
• In one, her face is bloodied and scraped in several places.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 16 Aug. 2018
• Videos showed people being beaten on the floor and left bloodied and dazed.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 24 July 2019
• That charge was dismissed, as was a charge in 2014 that Barletta punched and kicked in the head a man who lay bloodied on the ground in a bar fight.
  — Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Injured and bloodied, Sederbaum hopped on his bike and rode away.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 21 May 2018
• The preview opens with Stark, sweaty, bloodied, and out of breath, sprinting down the halls and checking behind her back.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2019
• The woman broke and bloodied a fingernail fighting off the man.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• When Amanoel came back later, his friend was a few streets down, his face bloodied.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• Xavier Salazar's face was bloodied in a jail booking photo.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• Caldwell’s knees and fingers were bloodied and Honnold got a nasty rope burn in a fall that tore a chunk from a finger.
  — Fox News, 6 June 2018
• VerHagen missed the ball, which hit him squarely in the nose, bloodying him.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2018
• His trousers were bloodied by bullets and grenade shrapnel.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Hundreds of others would come to look at the body, and many took items from the scene, including pieces of James’s bloodied clothing.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 July 2018
• An argument ensued, Neal hit Daniel in the face, bloodying her nose, and fired shots at her and Sanders.
  — Dale Kasler, Anita Chabria and Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 13 Apr. 2018
• Boyles posted a photo on Facebook last week showing the left side of his face bloodied.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• Thickly covered in white powder, the man’s face was bloodied.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
• The ball was kicked forward and shins forever bloodied.
  — Tod Leonard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
• San Diego sports fans, bloodied and battered, can relate.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2019
• After his wife was found bloodied in their Orlando, Fla., home in 2018, David Tronnes broke down in tears while police questioned him.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• While trying to duck under the very first beam in the very first challenge at the marooning, Bruce banged and bloodied his head, suffering a concussion.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024

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