How to Use bloodshed in a Sentence

bloodshed

noun
  • 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
  • Close calls, bloodshed and death might have made him that way.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Trump has so far failed to achieve his goal of seeing the bloodshed end.
    — Alex Nitzberg , Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2025
  • And now soccer is joined with everything else: the shock and the bloodshed and the refugees.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The cop is black, the shooter is white, and the bloodshed is an act of terrorism.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • This has been a year of bloodshed and heartbreak at Fort Hood in the central Texas city of Killeen.
    — Manny Fernandez New York Times, Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • But in each of the years since, the year-end number has topped 300 and the city’s leaders have been unable to slow the bloodshed.
    — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The clashes heightened concerns that the protests would spread and lead to more bloodshed.
    — Julie Turkewitz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Pence hailed the cease-fire as the way to end the bloodshed caused by Turkey's invasion.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Pence hailed the cease-fire as the way to end the bloodshed caused by Turkey’s invasion.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • On Juneteenth, the color red is a reminder of all the bloodshed on the road to freedom.
    — Amber Mayfield, Vogue, 17 June 2021
  • 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
  • Aside from Jung-bae, Gyeong-seok was shot by the guards taking down the rest of the rebels—not to mention the bloodshed back at base camp.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Arivaca hadn’t seemed like the kind of place for such bloodshed.
    — Simon Romero, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The fight, known as the Battle of Kohima and Imphal, produced some of the worst bloodshed of the war in Asia.
    — Maria Abi-Habib, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Despite the bloodshed, neither side seems inclined to end the war.
    — Dan Lamothe and Isabelle Khurshudyan, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
  • While nowhere near the homicide levels of a decade ago, the border city is still steeped in bloodshed.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The bloodshed again drew a rebuke from the U.S., this time directed at Ethiopia.
    — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 12 July 2022
  • The United States, meanwhile, has done little to stop the bloodshed.
    — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2025
  • Now, the president has sent Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware to find a way to stop the bloodshed.
    — John Mukum Mbaku, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Authorities have not released their names nor said what led to the bloodshed.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025

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