How to Use bloodless in a Sentence

bloodless

adjective
  • His face was bloodless with fear.
  • They took control of the government in a bloodless coup.
  • Her speeches are dull and bloodless.
  • Murders tend to take place off the page, and many are bloodless.
    — Alyse Burnside, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2021
  • So many bloodless words with two tender ones in the middle, like a still warm corpse in a storm.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Then came a wave of exhaustion, a tiredness limp and bloodless.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • How the frogs’ tissues endure their bizarrely bloodless state for hours at a time is still a mystery.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Yet by then the head was bloodless in the dust, sightless, thoughtless, and beyond words.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
  • Months of quiet preparation for a war that was supposed to be swift and bloodless.
    — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Chess is a bloodless game, and high-stakes political chess is a brutal game.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Both bloodless buddies can also be seen chucking up the deuces, peace signs ready for the camera.
    — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The trajectory was bloodless; the ball spent most of its trip rolling lazily along the ground.
    — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 15 June 2018
  • If Biden had abandoned that commitment, the bloodless war would've turned bloody again.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 26 Aug. 2021
  • But its prized trait—bloodless economic efficiency—won it few friends on the right or left.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 July 2021
  • But this is still too bloodless a description of the East-West contest.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Brooks Koepka played a bloodless round of golf, the sort that usually wins our Open.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2017
  • At one point one of these execs gets shot with a fake arrow during the ensuing, bloodless mayhem.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Part of the myth that has risen up around the events of 1688 is the claim that the revolution was bloodless.
    — Declan Leary, National Review, 19 July 2019
  • But decadents only break taboos in a bloodless, symbolic way—they’re too lazy and refined for murder.
    — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • Duke Kincaid’s solution to this problem is bloodless, but that isn’t always the case.
    — Marion Winik, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
  • President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled for 30 years, was ousted in a bloodless coup.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • Now, this is not to say that The Gilded Age has been an entirely bloodless affair.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The accomplishment is as stark as the bloodless black-and-white to which the film, which was shot in color, was color-corrected.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2021
  • For a brief time, there emerged on the horizon the glimmers of a bloodless alternative to the War on Drugs.
    — Patrick Winn, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Something that allows a faction of the military to, in a bloodless effort, push away the toughest aspects of the regime.
    — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • As far as felonies go, the bloodless armed robbery of drug dealers ranks low on the moral-outrage scale—until a victim catches a glimpse of one assailant’s face.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
  • But Fitz, who’d already drained a couple long and bloodless putts on the back 9, hit the approach from the sand to 18 feet from the hole.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 June 2022
  • They were talented – but bloodless and austere, lacking the passion to lead a team to the Stanley Cup.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The death comes as little surprise; there have been several weddings in the Game of Thrones franchise, and few have been bloodless.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Thom Yorke, the singer of the British rock band Radiohead, has been thrashing against a bleak and bloodless future for more than two decades.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 June 2019

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