How to Use bloodshed in a Sentence

bloodshed

noun

• Years of violence and bloodshed have left much of the country in ruins.
• The full extent of the bloodshed in the Kyiv area has yet to emerge.
  — chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• The goal reaching a peace deal that brings an end to the bloodshed.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 14 Aug. 2021
• Nayarit was then awash in the bloodshed of the Sinaloa-BLO war.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
• Maybe this is the thing that will bond them since bloodshed hasn’t.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
• The raid, coupled with the high death toll, raised the prospect of further bloodshed.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
• And now soccer is joined with everything else: the shock and the bloodshed and the refugees.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2022
• When Atkins, who went by the nickname Sadie, emerged from the house, Kasabian begged her to stop the bloodshed.
  — Elaine Woo Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 2 Mar. 2023
• Into the suffering, the bloodshed, and the agony of civilians there.
  — Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• Some are angry that more isn’t being done to halt the bloodshed.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• The clashes heightened concerns that the protests would spread and lead to more bloodshed.
  — Julie Turkewitz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• On Juneteenth, the color red is a reminder of all the bloodshed on the road to freedom.
  — Amber Mayfield, Vogue, 17 June 2021
• Gang violence is still blamed for much of the bloodshed.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The strike on Haniyeh's family is the latest bloodshed in a war with no end in sight.
  — Tia Goldenberg, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
• Aside from Jung-bae, Gyeong-seok was shot by the guards taking down the rest of the rebels—not to mention the bloodshed back at base camp.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
• Despite the bloodshed, neither side seems inclined to end the war.
  — Dan Lamothe and Isabelle Khurshudyan, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
• The bloodshed again drew a rebuke from the U.S., this time directed at Ethiopia.
  — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 12 July 2022
• Now, the president has sent Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware to find a way to stop the bloodshed.
  — John Mukum Mbaku, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2021
• The United States’ longest war may be drawing to an end, but the bloodshed is far from over.
  — Time, 16 Aug. 2021
• The reprieve from the bloodshed — while still in the early stages — has many rooting for the young president.
  — Annie Correal Federico Rios, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Our kids and teachers are hardening to the gunfire and bloodshed that is a part of their lives.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
• The bloodshed spurred new discussion about hate crime laws.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
• Three years after the end of the Civil War, many Americans were still struggling with the scale of the bloodshed.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2022
• But after years of bloodshed many in the Sahel, if not quite so many in Paris, are willing to try.
  — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2021
• The way to bring Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, and end the bloodshed, is to defeat him on the ground.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 June 2022
• It's now been 25 years since the OG Woodsboro murders, but that doesn't mean Ghostface is done with the bloodshed just yet.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 10 Mar. 2023
• Sheriff’s officials have tied much of the bloodshed in the area to the Florencia 13 gang.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• In June, Podolyak said up to 200 soldiers were dying each day in some of the most intense fighting and bloodshed so far in the war.
  — Jamey Keaten, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• But Gaza — marked by decades of bloodshed — is a uniquely volatile addition to the roll call of lands whose sovereignty and assets have come under Trump’s restless eye.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
• Image In all this, though, the drama in these stories — the rage and bloodshed and lust — is awfully sublimated.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Mar 2025