How to Use bloodshed in a Sentence

bloodshed

noun

• Years of violence and bloodshed have left much of the country in ruins.
• The footage depicted the clearest images yet of the event that set in motion the bloodshed that followed.
  — Clare Hymes, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2021
• But the prosecutor said Rittenhouse provoked that bloodshed, too.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2021
• Thompson said that there was no evidence the bloodshed Sunday was a terrorist attack or that Brooks knew anyone in the parade.
  — Scott Bauer, ajc, 24 Nov. 2021
• Thompson, the police chief, said that there was no evidence the bloodshed Sunday was a terrorist attack or that Brooks knew anyone in the parade.
  — Scott Bauer, Bernard Condon and Mike Householder, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2021
• Prosecutors have portrayed Rittenhouse as the instigator of the bloodshed that night.
  — CBS News, 9 Nov. 2021
• War’s elements were there—bloodshed, destruction, eviction, fear, lies, atrocity—but in tiny, immunizing doses.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2021
• Some will remember him as the last white South African president who played a primary role in ending the brutal system of apartheid and preventing further bloodshed.
  — Christi Van Der Westhuizen, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2021
• Americans see the bloodshed nightly on their television sets and read of the corruption of the ruling South Vietnamese Diem family.
  — Philip Kaplan, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2021
• Prosecutors have sought to portray Rittenhouse as the instigator of the bloodshed, which took place during a tumultuous night of protests against racial injustice.
  — Michael Tarm, Scott Bauer, Tammy Webber, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2021
• The full extent of the bloodshed in the Kyiv area has yet to emerge.
  — chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The big picture: One year after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, the bloodshed continues with no end in sight.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
• This one-two, from bloodshed to beauty, dilutes any sense of hopelessness a visitor might understandably feel.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024