blood money
noun
1
: money obtained at the cost of another's life
2
: money paid (as by a killer or the killer's clan) to the family of a person who has been killed
Examples of blood money in a Sentence
the blood money earned by people who profited from the tragedy
They accepted blood money in exchange for the murderer's execution.
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As Stormy Daniels was to DT, Lindsey is to the NRA, though Stormy got a bigger payday from the Orange Turd than Lindsey ever earns in blood money from the NRA.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
Her reclusive lifestyle along with the restrictive gender norms of the era and the blood money she was associated with, caused neighbors and the local press to speculate, and legends quickly began to swirl about the mysterious woman and her bewildering house.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023
Reparations are millennia old, created as a way of ending conflict between clans by paying blood money, says Luke Moffett, an expert on reparations and human rights law at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
The blood money had already been amassed into fortunes and palatial estates, and many of Britain’s wealthiest still maintained plantations in the Caribbean that profited from enslaved labor.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2023
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
Her reclusive lifestyle along with the restrictive gender norms of the era and the blood money she was associated with, caused neighbors and the local press to speculate, and legends quickly began to swirl about the mysterious woman and her bewildering house.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023
Reparations are millennia old, created as a way of ending conflict between clans by paying blood money, says Luke Moffett, an expert on reparations and human rights law at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
The blood money had already been amassed into fortunes and palatial estates, and many of Britain’s wealthiest still maintained plantations in the Caribbean that profited from enslaved labor.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2023
See all Example Sentences for blood money
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“Blood money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20money. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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