How to Use bloodshed in a Sentence

bloodshed

noun
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  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 there will be no bloodshed today — just some swords-and-chain-mail cosplay.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The two of them shouted at each other as the older man pleaded for less bloodshed.
    — Mary Zahn and Bill Janz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The news from Tijuana that day was filled with images of bloodshed.
    — Sandra Dibble, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • This led President López Obrador to release Guzmán, so the bloodshed would stop.
    — Karol Suárez and Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But amid the bloodshed, there was also a sense of closure for this chaotic and influential Montana family.
    — William Earl, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after 13 years of civil war happened more quickly and with far less bloodshed than anyone expected.
    — Gregory D. Koblentz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2024

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