How to Use sanguinary in a Sentence

sanguinary

adjective

• But even a cursory glance at the news that emanates from the Buddhist world reveals a more sanguinary state of affairs.
  — Amar Diwakar, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2018
• For months the armies have fought battles more sanguinary than Waterloo without making progress except in terms of yards.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2017
• The details of that latest outrage bore all the markings of the sanguinary and absurd cycle of racist police violence.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 7 May 2021
• The sanguinary stream in the tapestry may refer to the strife that drove Moufarrege’s family from both Alexandria and Beirut, as the papyrus and the tile pattern would suggest.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2020
• These sanguinary sprinklers use this defense only on members of the dog and cat families, like coyotes or bobcats, but not on birds or reptiles.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 23 Sep. 2017
• But for those hoping to slake their bloodlust a little sooner, there’s a whole world of sanguinary anime — with and without vampires — out there just waiting for viewers to sink their teeth into.
  — John Maher, Vulture, 4 June 2021
• To be categorically clear, there cannot be any moral equivalency between a monstrous and sanguinary apostle of death like Al-Zawahiri and the supreme champion of free speech, Salman Rushdie.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• Visitors seek out traces of Escobar’s sanguinary reign while also making the trek to Comuna 13 to hear stories of revolutionary mayhem.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
• The sanguinary battles of partisan politics turn pale when compared to the literary tussling taken up in defense of one's favorite noodle natatorium.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• No discriminatory intent should be inferred here; all over the place, in dioramas set up by dealers to pitch their sanguinary wares, soldiers of every nationality and ethnicity were massacring soldiers of every other nationality and ethnicity.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 28 Jan. 2018

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