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.
  • Since independence in 1956, their country has experienced more coups than any other in Africa, most short-lived and bloodless.
    Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 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
  • 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
  • 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

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