How to Use bloodless in a Sentence

bloodless

adjective

• His face was bloodless with fear.
• They took control of the government in a bloodless coup.
• Her speeches are dull and bloodless.
• The skin of the limp body — draped all the way across the canvas — is what speaks loudest: The bloodless flesh of a corpse going bluish gray says dead.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
• Murders tend to take place off the page, and many are bloodless.
  — Alyse Burnside, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2021
• Part of the myth that has risen up around the events of 1688 is the claim that the revolution was bloodless.
  — Declan Leary, National Review, 19 July 2019
• His bloodless three tied the score with one second left.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Today, three tribes here are locked in a bloodless war.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• But Fitz, who’d already drained a couple long and bloodless putts on the back 9, hit the approach from the sand to 18 feet from the hole.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 June 2022
• Yet by then the head was bloodless in the dust, sightless, thoughtless, and beyond words.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
• A bloodless animal cannot survive for a minute in the wild.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 25 Mar. 2017
• This was not medicine to be practiced at a bloodless remove.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2022
• For a brief time, there emerged on the horizon the glimmers of a bloodless alternative to the War on Drugs.
  — Patrick Winn, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024
• The trajectory was bloodless; the ball spent most of its trip rolling lazily along the ground.
  — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 15 June 2018
• But this is still too bloodless a description of the East-West contest.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• How the frogs’ tissues endure their bizarrely bloodless state for hours at a time is still a mystery.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022
• Brooks Koepka played a bloodless round of golf, the sort that usually wins our Open.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2017
• Then came a wave of exhaustion, a tiredness limp and bloodless.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• And yet his playing is far from spineless or bloodless.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 31 July 2017
• Thom Yorke, the singer of the British rock band Radiohead, has been thrashing against a bleak and bloodless future for more than two decades.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 June 2019
• Months of quiet preparation for a war that was supposed to be swift and bloodless.
  — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• Both bloodless buddies can also be seen chucking up the deuces, peace signs ready for the camera.
  — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• If Biden had abandoned that commitment, the bloodless war would've turned bloody again.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 26 Aug. 2021
• President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled for 30 years, was ousted in a bloodless coup.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2019
• The fights are always bloodless, always shot in slow motion.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2019
• Then head of the military police, Jammeh lead a bloodless coup that took control of The Gambia in 1994.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• Everything else about him was pale: his eyebrows were thin; his face was bloodless.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre of 1974 is a surprisingly bloodless film.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2022
• The death comes as little surprise; there have been several weddings in the Game of Thrones franchise, and few have been bloodless.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 19 Sep. 2022
• Chess is a bloodless game, and high-stakes political chess is a brutal game.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024