How to Use blooded in a Sentence

blooded

adjective
  • Even blue-blooded kids are, at the end of the day, kids.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 19 Nov. 2018
  • Snakes are cold-blooded and tend to live in warmer places.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2021
  • And who was the cold-blooded killer — or killers — who took his life?
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Back then, Ted was the butt of the joke—all red-blooded bluster and hubris.
    The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Or was there an even more cold-blooded killer out there?
    NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The fact remains, take away the boyish charm and you’re left with a cold-blooded killer.
    Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 3 May 2019
  • But Trump, for all his brutishness, is less cold-blooded than that.
    T.a. Frank, The Hive, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Tequila, its blue-blooded cousin, is a mezcal made from the Blue Agave species of maguey.
    John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Fish are cold-blooded creatures, and their habits change once lakes freeze over.
    Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The oldest host in the park who went from mild-mannered country gal to cold-blooded killer?
    Mehera Bonner, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The ancestors of lizards and snakes appeared to be cold-blooded.
    Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 8 Oct. 2019
  • His cold-blooded 3-pointer as the Bucks tried to mount a rally in the fourth-quarter helped secure the win.
    Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Health risks are possible for even the most warm-blooded among us.
    Nicole Blackwood, baltimoresun.com, 19 July 2019
  • So how does one coach a child to be a cold-blooded killer who also has an epic fight scene with a full-grown adult?
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Love Booker as the cold-blooded guy coming up with the dagger.
    Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Then Sexton canned a cold-blooded dagger in Irving’s face with 1.2 left to tie the game.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Every red-blooded male wants to be the only macho man on site with the strength or the smarts to get the lid off a pickle jar.
    Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Terry Clark is a cold-blooded killer who shot a man in the chest, killing him instantly.
    Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2017
  • Some people even replied with jokes about how their full-blooded siblings aren’t that nice to them.
    Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 2 Aug. 2018
  • The fourth wall drops away and the production becomes a full-blooded rock show, with band and cast onstage.
    Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Nobody in the blue-blooded echelon hand-picked him as the next up-and-comer.
    Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2021
  • The same testing was done on cold-blooded invertebrate shells found in the same area.
    Fox News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The same proves true for Carmen Jones, a sultry tale of passion and violence fleshed out of the bones of a hot-blooded opera.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2018
  • But the hot-blooded Brazilian quickly quashed that idea on the opening lap at Suzuka.
    Sarah Holt, CNN, 10 Oct. 2019
  • This allows them to detect warm-blooded animals in the dark of night.
    Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Austin thinks that might be why lizards evolved to be green-blooded because malaria is an issue for New Guinea and lizards.
    Fox News, 16 May 2018
  • For many red-blooded American males, the sound of a sizzling steak searing on the hot grate of a charcoal grill is music to the ears.
    By Celestina Blok photo By Ross Hailey, star-telegram.com, 7 June 2017
  • In fact, City were so dominant in the first half that, at times, the match looked more like a training game than a full-blooded Premier League clash.
    SI.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • With a combination of vampires, ghouls and cold blooded killers, these black villains are on our list as the scariest black horror villains.
    Essence, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The product of a year-long investigation, the podcast calls into question the conviction of the family’s 17-year-old son for the cold-blooded killings of his parents and siblings.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021

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