How to Use bloodstain in a Sentence

bloodstain

noun
  • There is a large bloodstain on the floor and on the wall.
    Cnn Staff, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
  • And it's found in and around bloodstains on her left shoe.
    Lauren Effron, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • By the end of the video, Crutcher is on the ground with a large bloodstain on the front of his T-shirt.
    Holly Yan and Justin Gamble, CNN, 15 May 2017
  • His T-shirt had a bloodstain on its right sleeve, and more blood was smeared on the bedsheets.
    Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In a return visit later in the day, she was struck by the smell of bleach, used to clean up bloodstains.
    Cincinnati.com, 27 Dec. 2019
  • There were bloodstains on the pavement and spent shell cartridges all about.
    Matt Surman Anushka Patil Juston Jones Julie Ho Julie Ho Julie Ho Monika Pronczuk Emile Ducke Andrea Kannapell The New York Times Monika Pronczuk Anushka Patil Farnaz Fassihi Andrea Kannapell Carlotta Gall Cassandra Vinograd Cassandra Vinograd Michael D. Shear Marc Santora Maya King Michael D. Shear Marc Santora Michael D. Shear Cassandra Vinograd Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi Farna, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Following the trail of bloodstains on the wall, Blaha entered the bathroom near the front door of the home to find Mary on the ground.
    Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • At Alex Schachter's desk - a bloodstain on other side of silver bar that connects the plastic seat to the desk.
    Cnn Staff, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
  • There was the urban carp mission that put us in a Phoenix motel with bloodstains on the carpet.
    Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2020
  • There’s also the ominous carpet, which looks a good deal like a bloodstain.
    Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 9 Jan. 2017
  • The bloodstains, since tested, did not contain Aguirre’s DNA.
    Krista Torralva, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The cleaners wash bloodstains and collect body parts in plastic bags or carts.
    Sharif Hassan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The pictures, which contain bloodstains, show the bag used to carry the bomb as well as some of the shrapnel that was packed around the explosive.
    Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
  • Just do it carefully because our soles are beige and no one wants a bloodstain, O.K.?
    Ali Solomon, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Photos taken by Fox News Digital show bullet holes in the side of the house and a bloodstain on the asphalt.
    Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Laundresses tread clothing in vats of urine, the only thing strong enough to shift bloodstains.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • To make matters worse, the detectives had also found a small bloodstain on Quinn’s sheets.
    Sean Dooley, ABC News, 3 June 2021
  • And at the point in the poem that talks about bloodstains and tampons and pads being taxed while Rogaine and Viagra are not, the crowd went nuts.
    Ashley Judd, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Or police spot a tiny but suspicious bloodstain at a crime scene.
    Harini Barath, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Some hand bloodstains traced angles at odds with each other as well, off by as much as 10 degrees.
    Christopher Carbone, Fox News, 16 July 2018
  • The audience erupts with excitement while workers move quickly to wipe fresh bloodstains off the mat for the next fight.
    John McCall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • Across from the Stepanakert market, in Room 6 of Nver Mikaelyan’s hotel, a maroon bloodstain still covered the bedsheets more than a week after the war’s end.
    New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Some claim there is a bloodstain on a carpet where a woman was stabbed to death and can sometimes be seen, according tokentuckyhauntedhouses.com.
    The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
  • A little before the four-minute mark, the men draw close enough to the camera that the bloodstains on the attacker’s stomach come into focus.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • The color had drained from his father’s face, Vato recalls, and a sizable gash across the top of his head left a bloodstain on his pillow.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The convictions owed in large part to Lee's testimony that there were bloodstains on a towel in the 65-year-old man's New Milford, Conn., home that linked the pair to the crime.
    Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • Arab TV stations showed images of a bus riddled with bullet holes, with many of its windows shattered and bloodstains on the seats.
    Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 27 May 2017
  • Outside a car wash where two people died, a smatter of small bloodstains can still be seen on the white exterior wall.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Inside the van was a mattress with what one investigator has said appeared to be bloodstains.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Upon arrival, officers noticed the scent of ammonia and bleach, as well as bloodstains in the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom, the BBC reported.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2024

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