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Example sentences for: bloody

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

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!)...
Both Suharto and Abacha, of course, were despicable tyrants, with records of venality and bloody oppression.
On the other hand, impeachment would be bloody, endless, and intolerable to most voters.
The more vulnerable communities on the lower plains paid a high price for these in the form of swift bloody reprisals.
The process of pacification and conversion to the Christian faith had taken almost a century of bloody guerilla warfare with thousands of casualties, sustained mainly on the brave but ill-equipped Guanche side.