How to Use bloody shirt in a Sentence

bloody shirt

noun

• In the closing scene, Raquel finds Kanan’s bloody shirt under his bed.
  — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2021
• Police reported finding a bloody jacket on the fence and the sword and a bloody shirt in the alley.
  — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2020
• Investigators found the bodies, the tire iron and the bloody shirt.
  — miamiherald, 6 Oct. 2017
• The wooden club and bloody shirt that was wrapped around it did not match any in a national database.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 5 May 2021
• Joe stashes his bloody shirt under the trash can of diapers.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2021
• That’s the consensus from center-left to far right; even Nazis and white supremacists seek to wave the First Amendment like a bloody shirt.
  — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• Abiding by the age-old custom, the Berisha matriarch hangs her dead son’s bloody shirt up on the family clothesline.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2018
• Now remember, the defense suggested that tossing this bloody shirt may have caused some of the blood spatter in the bedroom.
  — CBS News, 16 Nov. 2019
• Conservatives don’t like it when liberals wave the bloody shirt.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2022
• Voter fraud is, of course, the bloody shirt waved by Trump, his enablers and some of the former president’s more deluded followers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• Officers found a bloody shirt and torn coat under a streetcar viaduct near Fort Snelling, where bloody underwear was found in a barracks locker.
  — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
• Investigators also found a bloody shirt in the bathroom of a nearby gas station.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2018
• Pollsters stopped asking that question after 9/11, but liberals have waved the bloody shirt ever since.
  — Ted Rall, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
• Investigators said a bloody shirt and towel were recovered from the scene.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2019
• Police responded to reports of a loud bang and a man in a bloody shirt throwing a blue bucket into a nearby dumpster, the Tribune reported.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 8 June 2018
• Democrats will wave the draft ethics rule, if it is adopted, as a bloody shirt against judicial nominees who have belonged to the Federalist Society.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• To some Republican strategists, waving the bloody shirt of impeachment is unwise — at least this early in the election season.
  — Author: Jonathan Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2018
• The prosecution then showed Sherrard’s bloodied shirt and his body cam and radio microphone — the latter two had been damaged by bullets.
  — Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
• At the other extreme, Bangladesh is waved as a bloody shirt in the climate wars because tens of millions live in low-lying lands subject to seasonal flooding and tropical cyclones.
  — WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
• He was convicted of murdering her and sentenced to two life terms after evidence, including Murphy’s DNA on a bloody shirt and a fingernail, was linked to him.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2022
• Molino either absconded or just left but was apprehended in Houston a couple of weeks later, in possession of a bloody shirt thought to be Gerhardt’s.
  — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 21 Mar. 2020
• So basically, if there was some corroborating evidence — the knife was found, there was DNA, or a bloody shirt or something — that would have established it more clearly.
  — Mensah M. Dean, Philly.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• But doing so would require lowering the rhetorical temperature, focusing on forward-looking reforms rather than waving the bloody shirt of January 6 for partisan gain, and decoupling the issue from Democrats’ wish list on voting procedures.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 July 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024