Example sentences for: bloody

How can you use “bloody” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1927 Chiang turned on the Communists as well as on leftists within his own party, unleashing a vehement, bloody purge.

  • In everyday life, metaphors take many different forms, including similes (a nose as red as a cherry), proverbs (don't count your chickens before they're hatched), transfer phrases (make heavy weather of...) [,] wellerisms (everyone to his taste, as they said when the old woman kissed the cow), metonymy (the knife for surgery, the crown for royalty), synecdoches (sixty head of cattle, a cut-throat), and swearing (bloody bugger!)...

  • Quiet Jubilation Whitman Mounts Bloody Gloves To Sell Drugs

  • Various nightmare scenarios describe how the conflict in Kosovo might escalate . One has Albania, which has said it won't tolerate further attacks on its people in Kosovo, entering a bloody war with the Serbs.

  • Taken by the Christians in a bloody battle in 1487, Sohail was then leveled on the orders of the “Catholic kings.”


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