How to Use bloodbath in a Sentence

bloodbath

noun
  • Thousands of people were murdered in the bloodbath.
  • The rest of the movie consists of two long home invasion scenes, both set in massive Florida mansions that the invaders gradually turns into billionaire bloodbaths.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Last week’s Game of Thrones had all the makings of a bloodbath.
    Scott Meslow, GQ, 24 Aug. 2017
  • What did Jack Ma do to bring on this sort of bloodbath?
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • What prompted the bookstore bloodbath of the past decade?
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • This feels like a game that either is close or ends in a Philly bloodbath.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Miz and Maryse dressed in all white should have been a hint that there was a bloodbath coming.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Is all this new money going to lead to a glut or even a bloodbath?
    Micah Solomon, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Such voices have been out in force since the Parkland bloodbath.
    Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The Texas Tribune has the blow-by-blow account of this most recent bloodbath.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Aug. 2017
  • To make sense of the bloodbath, The Times’ most avid Con-heads predicted who would end up in charge of the company.
    David Viramontes, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The story behind Valentine's Day: Less about love and more of a bloodbath.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The entire world was expecting a bloodbath and the Cowboys took it to the final snap.
    Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2020
  • As for the league generally, the AFC is going to be a bloodbath.
    Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Two people are slaughtered in a bloodbath, and only a few drops of blood are found in O.J.’s house?
    Norman Mailer, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
  • Election Day was supposed to be a bloodbath for Democrats.
    Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The bloodbath that is the Stanley Cup is finally reaching the main event.
    The Tylt, AL.com, 29 May 2017
  • Maybe a bloodbath for House Democrats in this year’s elections is inevitable.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Yes, the midterms are a whole 18 months away, but many are already predicting a bloodbath.
    Alex Shephard, New Republic, 8 May 2017
  • Past years have seen the likes of ice skaters, horses, flames, and bloodbaths getting the fest off to the races with a bang and leaving guests breathless.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2024
  • On Wednesday, nearly a month after the bloodbath, he was placed on leave.
    Travis Caldwell and Rosa Flores, CNN, 23 June 2022
  • But the chances of a commodity-price bloodbath are slim.
    Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Neither the winners nor the losers of World War I were happy with the formal conclusion to the bloodbath.
    Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • The Big East figures to be a bloodbath this season and teams will likely need to take care of business at home.
    Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Perhaps to try and avoid a bloodbath for Democrats in November.
    Damon Linker, The Week, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The result was a bloodbath unlike anything the tech industry has seen in the past decade.
    Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Waystar Royco has always been a bloodbath in the making.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 13 June 2022
  • The crowd was going mad, and what was already going to be an intense game had the makings of a bloodbath.
    Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2018
  • That gives rise to a score-settling bloodbath that’s been brewing for almost 20 years.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 Nov. 2022
  • First, an actual soccer match between two favela teams, which resulted in a bloodbath and started a 25-year-long gang war which left scars in the city of Rio that are felt to this day.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 9 July 2024

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