How to Use bloodlust in a Sentence

bloodlust

noun
  • Some people don’t go through this kind of bloodlust, and that’s normal, too.
    — Ayana Underwood, SELF, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This has been in service of no one, but the bloodlust of our state government.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • On the trail that skirts the marsh grass, a dense cloud of bloodlust envelops the visitor.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Rumor has it one vampire still resides there, trapped by their bloodlust.
    — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Michael, in his quirky, eccentric bloodlust, can just keep going and going.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 20 Oct. 2018
  • However, it is also cursed and has a habit of amping up its user’s bloodlust.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But the five-years-long beef is a glimpse of a rap subculture suffocating on its own bloodlust.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The architecture matches the vibe; there's bloodlust in the air and even among the ragged fans who camp along the road outside.
    — Neda Ulaby, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Marko’s troubled relationship with pacifism both stems from childhood abuse and his fear of his own bloodlust.
    — Shaan Amin, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Their lust for power is matched by the bloodlust that Mary Parrish saw in the Tulsa mobs.
    — Anneliese M. Bruner, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • Stripped of their bloodlust, what, after all, are vampires and zombies but insomniacs with bad taste?
    — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • There’s a calming vibe to cleaning house, even if the means of doing so happens to be carving through a sea of people in bloodlust.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • There’s just something about wildly infeasible bloodlust that keeps us coming back for more.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2021
  • But Squid Game was a blunt instrument, a melodrama weaponized for memes and bloodlust.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Hunting parties will chase chimps and monkeys with remarkable bloodlust.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • The hosts have been consumed by bloodlust, leaving humans as hapless underdogs in a hell of their own making.
    — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2018
  • But what kind of bloodlust would lead someone to celebrate his decision to be there in the first place, knowing the tragedy that followed?
    — David Faris, The Week, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Can the ethical acts of Burnham and the crew make up for Lorca's madness and bloodlust?
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2017
  • Wilds lives up to this side of the series, though Capcom seems to be reckoning somewhat with its meat-eating bloodlust.
    — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • And the appeal of football isn’t only in the bloodlust, the thrill of acrobatic athleticism that ends in a big crash.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Of course, this presumed there was a way to take care of everybody while still satisfying the bloodlust of the conservative base.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Sep. 2017
  • There was no romantic period, the honeymoon didn’t work out and the bloodlust of our opponents has shown itself.
    — Evan Gershkovich, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The series delves into the world of the games—a world characterized by bloodlust, greed, the pursuit of power and corruption.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Taking the time to ripen Jon’s prey only makes pulling the trigger on his bloodlust increasingly difficult.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 6 June 2018
  • There can be no peace until the Palestinians are freed from the shackles of Jew hatred, resentment and dreams of bloodlust.
    — Evan Nierman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2024
  • But wildlife advocates see these events as an abuse of the West’s wildlife heritage and pointless celebrations of cruelty and bloodlust.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Outside, the bloodlust was running deep and cold as workers inside the jail grounds fashioned a makeshift gallows out of wood under a carnival tent, set up to shield the gawkers.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2019
  • Do better, or consider hiring people who paint a vivid enough picture with words rather than having to lean on photographers who seem to have an obscene bloodlust.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • These scenes aren’t any more convincing than the ones that preceded them — from the spurts of blood to the bloodlust behind each pull of the trigger, would-be climaxes feel like bad theater.
    — Michael Nordine, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The movie also clarifies that Michael's immortality and bloodlust are the result of a Druid curse.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022

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