Example sentences for: bloody

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

  • During Turkish rule the fortress was the scene of many bloody events, including the capture of Daskaloyiánnis in 1770 and the massacre of 700 Cretans in 1828.

  • Edward was furious, and his reprisal was swift and bloody.

  • A stickup artist shoves a Smith & Wesson in your face: Your money or your life, he says, by which he means you can surrender your money or you can surrender your slightly bloody money and your life.

  • With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India’s last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible.

  • With luck and wisdom, Ankara could now end a bloody insurgency that has cost some 31,000 lives, slowed economic development and given Turkey one of the world's worst records in the human rights field.


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