How to Use bloodletting in a Sentence

bloodletting

noun

• In the vast bloodletting, these are just two more lives.
  — Shawna Seed, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• But the ultimate goal here is to end the bloodletting in Ukraine.
  — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
• The bloodletting may have ceased, but only just for now.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 June 2023
• Meanwhile, the war grinds on, with no sign that the bloodletting could end anytime soon.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
• The bloodletting of Christians must end, and all who aid their killers must be punished.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 26 May 2017
• The declines followed a day of bloodletting on Wall Street.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2020
• Those include just how much leverage the US retains to stanch bloodletting and coax the parties back from the brink.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2017
• Putin just might seize the opportunity to stanch the bloodletting and try to bring Russia in from the cold.
  — Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2023
• Half a dozen movies in, and the bloodletting hasn’t eased up — or gotten less popular.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Mar. 2023
• The harshness of the attacks has the feel of a bloodletting better suited for politicians like Texas Sens.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• Debris from the attack — the worst single act of bloodletting during the now four-year-old Ukraine war — was strewn over a wide area.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 25 May 2018
• The bloodletting was done with, the slaves were freed, and the task ahead was to reconcile north and south, which meant the white people who'd hated each other.
  — Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
• When will the bloodletting of great sports journalists end?
  — Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 29 June 2017
• But the question is often raised whether Oscar's public bloodletting is for his own good or the good of those around him.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• That sometimes, the bloodletting is knowing that a thing will hurt us and doing it anyway.
  — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 14 Sep. 2017
• The declines followed a day of bloodletting Friday on Wall Street.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
• Greece, where the Noor One remained docked all this time, was to be the most consequential source of conflict over the deal once the bloodletting started to abate.
  — Alexander Clapp, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
• The bloodletting for control of the Rochester rackets continued for years.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
• None was willing to entertain the idea that anyone but Israel was at fault for the Gaza bloodletting.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Because Cameron makes the stakes feel as real as our own real-world bloodletting.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 13 Dec. 2022
• The question is whether the victims needed that, as bloodletting, and the question is should the justice system allow that?
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• Trump’s insults couldn’t stem the bloodletting of support from his party.
  — Kia Makarechi, The Hive, 30 Jan. 2017
• To date, his career has lurched forward one vocal bloodletting at a time.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 6 May 2023
• Then, with a change of setting, everything picks up again, as we are led into the forests of the title, and to a bout of bloodletting that verges on both the primeval and the surreal.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• A lot of bloodletting, but most of it happens so quickly that the impact is diminished.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• While the current bloodletting is hardly the first instance of tech turmoil, the circumstances this time around are unique.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2023
• In the meantime, this week, during the bloodletting, good chaps from both sides have been quietly slipping away.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
• Jeff Garzik has a unique perspective on the public bloodletting.
  — David Z. Morris, Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017
• The holiday rush has turned into the New Year’s bloodletting at a pair of major retailers.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• The rituals and testifying in Feria are full of bloodlettings, skin flayings, and people who were supposedly dead returning to their physical forms.
  — EW.com, 18 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024