How to Use bloodshed in a Sentence

bloodshed

noun
  • Years of violence and bloodshed have left much of the country in ruins.
  • And there's been a lot of bloodshed.
    — NBC news, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Close calls, bloodshed and death might have made him that way.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Maybe this is the thing that will bond them since bloodshed hasn’t.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
  • There’s no way this will end in bloodshed, tears, and rage, right?
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • The bloodshed that followed was quick to kill that hope.
    — Sarah Dean, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The goal reaching a peace deal that brings an end to the bloodshed.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Trump has so far failed to achieve his goal of seeing the bloodshed end.
    — Alex Nitzberg , Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2025
  • Verse two brings more danger, in the form of bloodshed, fear and hints of a chase.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The full extent of the bloodshed in the Kyiv area has yet to emerge.
    — chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Some are angry that more isn’t being done to halt the bloodshed.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Witnesses at the scene said the chaos and bloodshed will be hard to shake.
    — oregonlive.com, 29 July 2019
  • But the prison was unprepared to deal with the bloodshed.
    — Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Arivaca hadn’t seemed like the kind of place for such bloodshed.
    — Simon Romero, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Trump warns of 'massive bloodshed' if Hamas fails to agree to peace deal.
    — FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • When, oh when, will the bloodshed of history end?
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The raid, coupled with the high death toll, raised the prospect of further bloodshed.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But for all its bloodshed, the movie’s not sharp enough to land a cutting blow — or even to break skin.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But the obligation to stop the next bloodshed is not the West’s alone.
    — Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
  • The cop is black, the shooter is white, and the bloodshed is an act of terrorism.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Some turned their backs on the dignitary, and wore red gloves as a symbol of the bloodshed.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 12 July 2018
  • The clashes heightened concerns that the protests would spread and lead to more bloodshed.
    — Julie Turkewitz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Despite the bloodshed, neither side seems inclined to end the war.
    — Dan Lamothe and Isabelle Khurshudyan, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
  • The violence and bloodshed will stop.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • While nowhere near the homicide levels of a decade ago, the border city is still steeped in bloodshed.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • To avoid needless bloodshed, these warrantless raids must end now.
    — Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Our kids and teachers are hardening to the gunfire and bloodshed that is a part of their lives.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • The strike on Haniyeh's family is the latest bloodshed in a war with no end in sight.
    — Tia Goldenberg, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Some Peuhl leaders had vowed to carry out reprisals for the March bloodshed .
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2019
  • Cultures and creeds were never the true engines of bloodshed—and aren’t in our day, either.
    — Josef Joffe, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026

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