How to Use bloodletting in a Sentence

bloodletting

noun
  • But that doesn’t mean the bloodletting is over, at least at Sony.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Apple even pushed through a rare round of cuts — though the bloodletting slowed by the end of the year.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the war grinds on, with no sign that the bloodletting could end anytime soon.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
  • But the ultimate goal here is to end the bloodletting in Ukraine.
    — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • To date, his career has lurched forward one vocal bloodletting at a time.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 6 May 2023
  • Half a dozen movies in, and the bloodletting hasn’t eased up — or gotten less popular.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The bloodletting of Christians must end, and all who aid their killers must be punished.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 26 May 2017
  • Much bloodletting, and a whole lotta rockin', ensues.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Trump’s insults couldn’t stem the bloodletting of support from his party.
    — Kia Makarechi, The Hive, 30 Jan. 2017
  • That sometimes, the bloodletting is knowing that a thing will hurt us and doing it anyway.
    — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 14 Sep. 2017
  • In the midst of such bloodletting, the launch of such a project may seem surprising at best and a waste of resources at worst.
    — Kendall Bianchi, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Because Cameron makes the stakes feel as real as our own real-world bloodletting.
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 13 Dec. 2022
  • A lot of bloodletting, but most of it happens so quickly that the impact is diminished.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Jeff Garzik has a unique perspective on the public bloodletting.
    — David Z. Morris, Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017
  • In the meantime, this week, during the bloodletting, good chaps from both sides have been quietly slipping away.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
  • But the question is often raised whether Oscar's public bloodletting is for his own good or the good of those around him.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Dressed in rain gear in anticipation of the horrific bloodletting to come, each of them holds his or her own weapons.
    — Alexander Chee, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Putin just might seize the opportunity to stanch the bloodletting and try to bring Russia in from the cold.
    — Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2023
  • While the current bloodletting is hardly the first instance of tech turmoil, the circumstances this time around are unique.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The bloodletting for control of the Rochester rackets continued for years.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Of course, mass shootings are just one part of the national bloodletting, the sacrifice for freedom.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 2 Oct. 2017
  • They were told that the ceremony was one of peace meant to forever close the wound of our mutual bloodletting.
    — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Debris from the attack — the worst single act of bloodletting during the now four-year-old Ukraine war — was strewn over a wide area.
    — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Those include just how much leverage the US retains to stanch bloodletting and coax the parties back from the brink.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2017
  • The bloodletting was done with, the slaves were freed, and the task ahead was to reconcile north and south, which meant the white people who'd hated each other.
    — Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The question is whether the victims needed that, as bloodletting, and the question is should the justice system allow that?
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • The declines followed a day of bloodletting Friday on Wall Street.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
  • None was willing to entertain the idea that anyone but Israel was at fault for the Gaza bloodletting.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The highly contentious stretch prompted a major bloodletting; at least 12 board members left after the vote to close.
    — Glenn Nelson, The Seattle Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • This month’s stock market losses won’t be the last of the bloodletting, according to Raymond James.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025

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