How to Use bad blood in a Sentence

bad blood

noun
  • There's been a lot of bad blood between them since their quarrel.
  • So there has been bad blood between the two of these in the past.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
  • Fast forward to 2022, and the bad blood is all washed away.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2022
  • There was no bad blood between the teams, as was the case in years past.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2023
  • There’s bad blood right now between Thomas and the Saints.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The two title fights in the desert were tainted with bad blood.
    John Marshall, ajc, 13 June 2021
  • But in view of the bad blood and false starts of the past 12 months, neither seems likely in the short term.
    Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
  • There’s no bad blood between us, which is like the best thing.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 12 June 2022
  • But fans of the show can rest assured that there's no lasting bad blood.
    Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 29 Jan. 2020
  • There is some bad blood between Lily and Eileen on one side and Chrissie on the other.
    Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
  • The woman said there was bad blood between the suspect and her boyfriend.
    cleveland, 21 Dec. 2021
  • There's no bad blood between Jae and I. Jae has looked out for me the past couple of years.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • There is bad blood between these two teams, and the Steelers will play hard in this one.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Riley, who had led the Knicks for three seasons, had become the coach of the Heat, and there was bad blood over the move.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • There’s some bad blood in the combination of Rock, Smith, and the Oscars.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Sources said there seemed to be no bad blood between Jordyn and Kylie.
    Teen Vogue, 11 June 2019
  • Kawhi Leonard shouldn't be back from his knee injury, but there is bad blood between the teams.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
  • What France’s richest man got instead was a lot of bad blood between the two sides.
    Angelina Rascouet, Bloomberg.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Ahead of the premiere, Parker denied bad blood—at least on her end.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2022
  • If there was any bad blood between the two in the past, Garth only had nice things to say about Alba now.
    Rachel Yang, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • There’s no bad blood between the two players, per se, but only one man can wear the crown.
    Mickey Rapkin, WSJ, 25 July 2018
  • Martha Stewart says there's no bad blood between her and Katie Couric!
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • And anyway, as the XO team sees it, their artist shouldn’t have incited any bad blood.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2021
  • There's no bad blood between Florence Pugh and Zach Braff.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Jan. 2023
  • There's no longer bad blood between Charlie Sheen and his ex-wife Denise Richards.
    Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • As to the Flexjet-NetJets rivalry, the bad blood runs deep.
    Doug Gollan, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Taylor Swift has caused some bad blood in Southeast Asia.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2024
  • For most clubs in the Dodgers’ position, bad blood would accompany the return trip to the scene of the crime.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • But currently, that position is held by the orc Adar (Sam Hazeldine), and these two have bad blood.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The technology already has decades of bad blood with customers, and sales of consumer printers and print cartridges have been falling.
    Omar L. Gallaga, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2024

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