How to Use blood feud in a Sentence

blood feud

noun
  • Yes, schemes are hatched, alliances are formed, and blood feuds are forged.
    — Siren Goes Off, Vulture, 16 June 2023
  • Did you guys have your own blood feud with NYU’s RAs?
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Maybe Sam Nivola and Leslie Bibb were in a secret blood feud.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Someday in the not-too-distant future, there very well might be a blood feud between these two teams.
    — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • How far can the president take his blood feud with Jeff Bezos?
    — Jon Kelly, The Hive, 30 Mar. 2018
  • But the battles, like any true blood feud, did not end with the deaths of any (or even all) of the original parties.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Horses snorting and guns blazing, these dueling groups work through a blood feud where the lines between good guys and bad blur.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Most of the players associated with the blood feud have retired.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Six words kick-started the blood feud in the Big East’s inaugural season.
    — Liz Clarke, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
  • It was well known that the Mexican marines had a long-running blood feud with the BLO.
    — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Under the practice of baad, families exchange women to settle blood feuds.
    — Ross McDonnell, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • This is a dark drama about a pair of Irish families who are shepherds and get into a blood feud over an incident of sheep rustling.
    — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Instead the brawl over the 2016 election has become a blood feud in which the facts seem irrelevant.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The multigenerational blood feud at the heart of the Njála resists summary.
    — Stefan Beck, WSJ, 20 July 2018
  • The context of their headlong infatuation is a blood feud that rages unabated in Verona.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Or the blood feud between the namesakes of the de Young Museum and Spreckels Lake.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Edmonton-Calgary, a blood feud that could spark division across Canada.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • This transformed a political rivalry into a blood feud.
    — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
  • In the medieval era, blood feuds carried on for generations; likewise, today’s wars are often rooted in centuries of pain.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • After his mother is murdered by Alice at the end of the first film, Jason Voorhees takes over the blood feud, avenging her death.
    — Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
  • They have long been portrayed as locked in a blood feud originating with Galswintha’s murder, blinded by an intense hatred for each other.
    — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The match, which took place on July 13th, was the culmination of a long and personal blood feud between the two former friends.
    — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The court statement detailed the two families’ longstanding enmity — a blood feud that dates back to 1996.
    — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • In Chechnya, blood feuds are a traditional custom of extracting revenge by killing an enemy or his male relatives.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The two have been at each other’s throats since the financial drama debuted in 2016, their blood feud at the core of the Showtime series.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In classical antiquity, the mountainous region was notorious for bandits; in modern times, blood feuds among clans were rife.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There’s nothing like a progressive blood feud for entertainment, but the people who pay the price are the subway riders and taxpayers of New York.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Surprisingly, though, Sweet Tooth took Stu’s advice to heart and decided to focus on winning the race rather than on his blood feud with Grimm.
    — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The teens not only navigate lingering feelings from their past romance and a longtime blood feud, but are forced to work together to end a vicious madness that threatens Shanghai.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • His charm offensive is halted, however, when Colm issues a macabre ultimatum that vaults a simple estrangement to the level of an eccentric two-man blood feud.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2022

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