How to Use blood money in a Sentence

blood money

noun
  • They accepted blood money in exchange for the murderer's execution.
  • That would amount to blood money, in the opinion of some critics.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • That’s terror money; that’s blood money that’s not in their hands.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2020
  • America will never be a safe haven for Maduro’s blood money.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Presumably with blood money from a three-team parlay that hit a few days earlier.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 June 2026
  • Those seeking to bring blood money into Britain, however, need not have looked too far.
    — Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • So is payment, and David brings 1,000 euros along as blood money.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2021
  • This is truly the definition of ‘blood money’.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Dems take blood money from the NRA and gun manufacturers, too.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 May 2022
  • The district attorney is busy running her re-election campaign and collecting police blood money to do so.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 15 May 2018
  • To many people — make that most people — signing on to the LIV is accepting blood money.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
  • Her group was active in pushing the state to stop issuing permits for the bulldozing of tortoises in exchange for what many decried as blood money.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Fame and violence are indelibly connected, and the stars of the screen must be punished for the wealth that funds their sumptuous life, which amounts to nothing but blood money.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
  • As an extra touch of morbid absurdism, if enough people text in support of a pardon, and Mona in fact absolves, the show’s sponsors will pay the blood money.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Done with adults who claim children are invaluable — though clearly not as invaluable as pockets filled with NRA blood money.
    — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Those hands are your hands — stained with the blood money of the National Rifle Association.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • The latest round of western economic reprisals against Russia are shining a harsh light on Formula 1’s love of blood money.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Payment would be viewed as blood money, an atonement to wash away German sins – and, of course, nothing could ever obviate the evil of the Third Reich.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Optimists may even glean some reassurance from the willingness of Iranian jurisprudence to deem women worth 100 camels in blood money.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Twin Cities, 8 Aug. 2019
  • And the op-ed pages have been suffused with claims that the NRA has bought Republicans with blood money, stifling the popular will and thwarting democracy in the process.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
  • An important subtext is the question of blood money that someone convicted of murder or manslaughter must pay to the victim's family, but this will go over the heads of international audiences.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2017
  • But some convicts have been rescued by the practice of blood money, which their victims’ families choose to receive as restitution out of compassion, poverty, pressure or another motivation.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • There is precedent for this portrayal in the Bible, as some will recall that Judas immediately regrets his betrayal, returns the blood money and commits suicide.
    — Jonathan Merritt, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Checkmate, funded by Adrian Chase/Vigilante’s (Freddie Stroma) seized blood money, is officially formed.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The explicit mention of the death penalty as the source of one passenger’s misery, and their need for blood money — a possibility for everyday citizens — as well as Peyman’s youthful rage against the injustices forcing him to flee, feel definitely charged with defiance, even if measured.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025

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