How to Use bloodstained in a Sentence

bloodstained

adjective

• The bloodstained ice ax used to kill Leon Trotsky in 1940 has resurfaced for the first time in more than six decades.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
• Echion raises his bloodstained face at him and bares his teeth.
  — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Two days later, his bloodstained car was found abandoned in Newhaven with a lead pipe in the trunk.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• Kilgore held up his bloodstained hands and broke down in tears.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Bathed in an eerie light, Yaser al-Hazzazi paused to adjust the bloodstained gauze wrapped around his head and face.
  — Vivian Nereim Tamir Kalifa, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
• Police received a bloodstained helmet from a farmer who found it on the side of the road the night Joughin went missing.
  — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• For the next two weeks, their safety, security, and privacy will be in the bloodstained hands of the CCP.
  — Tom Cotton, National Review, 5 Feb. 2022
• It has not been cleaned since the shooting and remains bloodstained and bullet-pocked, with Valentine's Day gifts strewn about.
  — Terry Spencer, ajc, 28 June 2022
• The mass killing in Indianapolis was the latest in a grim litany that has left a trail of bloodstained sorrow across the country this spring.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
• The pair of bloodstained girls' sneakers, painted on a wall in downtown Kabul, serves as a grim reminder of the terror wrought here.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
• In the imagery of Bloody Sunday, the 17-year-old seems limp, and Daly waves a bloodstained handkerchief as an impromptu flag of truce.
  — Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
• Police allegedly found bloodstained shoes and a straw hat that had been cut into pieces at Telles' home.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
• Inside the motel room, police found a bloodstained mattress with cat litter on it and cat litter on the floor.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
• After residents called 911, police arrived to find a bloodstained car, and a trail of blood leading from the parkway around the side of the building.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
• An elderly man in a bloodstained sports jacket carried a limp child, whose eyes were open to reveal only the whites.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• In the imagery of Bloody Sunday, the 17-year-old seems limp, and Father Daly waves a bloodstained handkerchief as an impromptu flag of truce.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2022
• Officers also found a bloodstained mattress in the basement and an apparent blood stain on the bed frame in the bedroom.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2023
• Walking the bloodstained crime scene of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.
  — Trevor Hunnicutt, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
• Amid the chaos, a stagehand bursts out from one of the rooms with a grim expression and a laundry basket full of bloodstained garments, closing the door sharply behind her.
  — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
• The bloodstained bedding was still there when a Wall Street Journal reporter visited last month.
  — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 15 May 2022
• The Appalachian folk songs that Parton’s mother sang to her were often bloodstained and haunted.
  — Dorian Lynskey, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2020
• In all this, the archbishop’s promotion of his Christian striving for peace might have seemed doomed, a lonesome voice in a bloodstained wilderness.
  — New York Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• Resolving trauma isn’t as easy as leaving it behind in the wilderness or writing it down in a bunch of bloodstained journals.
  — Erin Qualey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2022
• After a mother is murdered at her house, police focus on their best clues: a bloodstained hammer and a dusty footprint.
  — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2022
• Time for a final showdown with the supernaturally strong man wielding a bloodstained cleaver in the mall.
  — Katie Barsotti, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• Once the man is on his back on the sidewalk with his bloodstained shirt seemingly ripped open, an officer presses the empty yellow bag against the wound as Kennedy seals its edges with tape.
  — Washington Post, 19 July 2021
• But the explosion last week, which sent a shock wave across eastern Beirut, shattered so many windows and storefronts that the main street was carpeted with bloodstained glass.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
• The three photos showed two babies whose bodies had been burned beyond recognition and a third infant’s bloodstained body.
  — Matthew Chance, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• Circe’s reckless and bloodstained niece, Medea, arrives once, her wrathful father not far behind.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Is God Is, a murderous modern myth about vengeful twin sisters on a bloodstained mission to kill their father.
  — Sagal Mohammed, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024