How to Use blood sport in a Sentence

blood sport

noun
  • Trump wants to stage a blood sport on the same ground.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In our home, voting is a blood sport, and the whole family’s got to play.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2021
  • As in nature herself, there is death and, as in England of yore, blood sport.
    — Katherine A. Powers Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The public may find the latest blood sport amusing at first and support an inquiry.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The new politics is blood sport, one that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the cancer ward, or even the morgue.
    — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
  • Both parties helped turn the confirmation of state agency heads into a blood sport.
    — Lori Sturdevant, Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
  • In the American blood sport of college admissions, the rich have long had more levers to pull.
    — Ben Steverman, Bloomberg.com, 12 Mar. 2019
  • They are asked to be nonpolitical when politics is their blood sport.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Now, the stars and producers behind the global smash are about to face the real-life blood sport that is awards season.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
  • For a lot of people, critiquing the Oscars has become a kind of national blood sport.
    — Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • For most of the country’s first century, politics was a zero-sum game—and often a blood sport.
    — Kevin Baker, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
  • These campaigns, whether waged by one person or a community, have turned reading into a blood sport.
    — Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But in the blood sport that is Israeli politics, such insults are nothing that can’t be overcome.
    — Aron Heller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
  • That’s bad news for us but good news for the foremost childhood games turned anti-capitalist blood sport film series.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The blood sport can be highly lucrative for owners and for spectators who may wager thousands on a match.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Spears and Federline both went out on their free nights, but Spears was the one who became the target of tabloid blood sport.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
  • Given the importance of self-care, business should not be about the survival of the fittest, and politics should not be a blood sport.
    — Gina Lodge, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • Without mass death to keep the population in check, the herd would have to be culled by way of sterilization, slavery, or blood sport.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • How about pursuing a remake in lieu of pursuing actual blood sport in Venezuela?
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Some analysts had been clamoring for the blood sport—counseling Best Buy to shut down stores and slash head count.
    — Hubert Joly, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • For decades, redistricting in Los Angeles has been something of a blood sport.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The cowboy humorist saw politics as an endeavor for genial discussion, not a blood sport.
    — Steven Watts, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Summer is for the swords-and-sandals epics, like this series set in ancient Rome during the era of gladiator blood sport.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 20 July 2024
  • Though bloodied and battered by this blood sport, her sheer survival is her resistance against the gaping maws of the demented tradition.
    — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The maximum penalty for participants in the blood sport is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2026
  • In Northern California, booking a public campsite is a blood sport.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The often convoluted petition process is often regarded as a blood sport in Illinois.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026
  • Although females were likely to have mating success in their lives, competition for mates among the males was a winner-take-all blood sport in which male mastodons would likely sire many offspring or none at all.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • As if to drive home that tennis is a blood sport, Sinner took his trophy to the Colosseum and posed for photos on the floor of the amphitheater, foisting the cup in the air.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Of course, in a place like San Francisco where vying for buildable land is practically a blood sport, outskirts never remain outskirts for long.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018

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