How to Use blood sport in a Sentence

blood sport

noun

• The blood sport can be highly lucrative for owners and for spectators who may wager thousands on a match.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
• As if to drive home that tennis is a blood sport, Sinner took his trophy to the Colosseum and posed for photos on the floor of the amphitheater, foisting the cup in the air.
  — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2024
• In our home, voting is a blood sport, and the whole family’s got to play.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2021
• The new politics is blood sport, one that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the cancer ward, or even the morgue.
  — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
• Yet, in the past decade, politics has become a blood sport.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
• As in nature herself, there is death and, as in England of yore, blood sport.
  — Katherine A. Powers Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
• In a matter of seconds, the spectacle turned to blood sport.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• The blood sport, in the past, has left them in hot water with animal rights activists.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2017
• In the American blood sport of college admissions, the rich have long had more levers to pull.
  — Ben Steverman, Bloomberg.com, 12 Mar. 2019
• Spears and Federline both went out on their free nights, but Spears was the one who became the target of tabloid blood sport.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
• Palace intrigues had long been a blood sport in Macedonia.
  — Myrto Papadopoulos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
• The public may find the latest blood sport amusing at first and support an inquiry.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 29 Oct. 2019
• Now, the stars and producers behind the global smash are about to face the real-life blood sport that is awards season.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
• Given the importance of self-care, business should not be about the survival of the fittest, and politics should not be a blood sport.
  — Gina Lodge, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• For a lot of people, critiquing the Oscars has become a kind of national blood sport.
  — Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• It’s shot as if the battle were an Olympic event, fitting since Second City politics is a blood sport.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• Some analysts had been clamoring for the blood sport—counseling Best Buy to shut down stores and slash head count.
  — Hubert Joly, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• But in the blood sport that is Israeli politics, such insults are nothing that can’t be overcome.
  — Aron Heller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
• For most of the country’s first century, politics was a zero-sum game—and often a blood sport.
  — Kevin Baker, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
• Both parties helped turn the confirmation of state agency heads into a blood sport.
  — Lori Sturdevant, Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
• All of which raises the question: What kind of society are we when senior citizens are picked off for blood sport?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• In the 1990s, however, Harvey Weinstein turned the pursuit into a blood sport.
  — The New York Times Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• In what will inevitably be called the Donald Trump era, the relationship between joker and target became a blood sport.
  — Bill Carter For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 14 May 2021
• But the restrictions can face fierce pushback in places like Brighton and South Boston, where new development has surged and vying for a parking space on the street can feel like a blood sport.
  — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2019
• They are asked to be nonpolitical when politics is their blood sport.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• Though bloodied and battered by this blood sport, her sheer survival is her resistance against the gaping maws of the demented tradition.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2019
• The verdict is certain to deepen fissures in the South American nation, where politics can be a blood sport and the 69-year-old populist leader is either loved or hated.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Dec. 2022
• Måneskin has an even bigger show next year in its hometown at the Circo Massimo, a huge public park that was once the site of ancient Roman blood sport and carnivals.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• Even by the blood sport standards of Chicago, the battle waged over the future of old Prentice Women’s Hospital was unusually bitter.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
• Fortunately, this pastry chef who lost patience with the high cost of fine dining and the blood sport that is vying for Michelin stars hasn’t lost his finely honed sense of flavor, or his technical skill.
  — Adina Steiman, WSJ, 31 May 2018

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024