How to Use blood feud in a Sentence

blood feud

noun

• Killings turn into blood feuds that lead to more killings.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• Yes, schemes are hatched, alliances are formed, and blood feuds are forged.
  — Siren Goes Off, Vulture, 16 June 2023
• It was well known that the Mexican marines had a long-running blood feud with the BLO.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
• Not every sporting event has to come from a blood feud.
  — Jay Reddick, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2022
• Tár is in a blood feud with Berghain bouncer Sven Marquardt.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2022
• These guys and gals seem engaged in an eternal blood feud.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
• Or the blood feud between the namesakes of the de Young Museum and Spreckels Lake.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2021
• But the battles, like any true blood feud, did not end with the deaths of any (or even all) of the original parties.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• How far can the president take his blood feud with Jeff Bezos?
  — Jon Kelly, The Hive, 30 Mar. 2018
• Instead the brawl over the 2016 election has become a blood feud in which the facts seem irrelevant.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
• The Kanun regulates manners, marriages, and above all the blood feud in which the Berishas have found themselves.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2018
• Six words kick-started the blood feud in the Big East’s inaugural season.
  — Liz Clarke, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
• After his mother is murdered by Alice at the end of the first film, Jason Voorhees takes over the blood feud, avenging her death.
  — Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
• The two have been at each other’s throats since the financial drama debuted in 2016, their blood feud at the core of the Showtime series.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• Horses snorting and guns blazing, these dueling groups work through a blood feud where the lines between good guys and bad blur.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Oct. 2021
• Most of the players associated with the blood feud have retired.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 4 Dec. 2021
• The multigenerational blood feud at the heart of the Njála resists summary.
  — Stefan Beck, WSJ, 20 July 2018
• The court statement detailed the two families’ longstanding enmity — a blood feud that dates back to 1996.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• By swiftly dispensing with the murder, Kadare can expand at length on the real subject of Broken April: the culture that surrounds and maintains the blood feud.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2018
• The context of their headlong infatuation is a blood feud that rages unabated in Verona.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• There’s nothing like a progressive blood feud for entertainment, but the people who pay the price are the subway riders and taxpayers of New York.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2017
• Edmonton-Calgary, a blood feud that could spark division across Canada.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2020
• They have long been portrayed as locked in a blood feud originating with Galswintha’s murder, blinded by an intense hatred for each other.
  — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• The teens not only navigate lingering feelings from their past romance and a longtime blood feud, but are forced to work together to end a vicious madness that threatens Shanghai.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• His charm offensive is halted, however, when Colm issues a macabre ultimatum that vaults a simple estrangement to the level of an eccentric two-man blood feud.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2022
• This is a pretty decent workaround for Cattrall and Parker’s decades-long blood feud, as Cattrall has been extremely vocal about Parker allegedly treating her poorly on set.
  — Vulture, 31 May 2023
• Huck’s story is the version of America that includes poverty, murder, alcoholism, child abuse, race prejudice, blood feud and imbecility.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• Their clan had settled in Parenstu, according to family legend, after a dispute that began over a pot of necklaces and quickly escalated into a blood feud over territory — the kind everyone here seemed eager to avoid.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2019
• His ability to elevate perceived slights into a blood feud or manufacture a reality that allows him to tap even deeper into his competitive reservoir is legendary.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 16 May 2020
• Azerbaijan, which is overwhelmingly Muslim, had been locked in a centuries-old blood feud with Armenia, which is predominantly Christian, and for more than a year Azerbaijani nationalists had attacked road and rail traffic into the territory.
  — Marilyn Berger, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024