How to Use bloodstained in a Sentence

bloodstained

adjective
  • Echion raises his bloodstained face at him and bares his teeth.
    — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Two bodies lie in the bloodstained snow next to the entrance.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Kilgore held up his bloodstained hands and broke down in tears.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Video footage shared on social media showed bloodstained floors.
    — David C. Adams, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Two days later, his bloodstained car was found abandoned in Newhaven with a lead pipe in the trunk.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • So were the fellow migrants tortured in a bloodstained Libyan prison.
    — Elian Peltier Annika Hammerschlag, New York Times, 18 May 2024
  • When justice recedes, revenge rears its bloodstained head.
    — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Bodies, some in bloodstained shrouds, were placed shoulder to shoulder in makeshift graves, making room for more.
    — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The latter also had video of the bloodstained concrete of where the shooting happened.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Police allegedly found bloodstained shoes and a straw hat that had been cut into pieces at Telles' home.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Shaw’s bloodstained car was found abandoned in a Las Vegas parking lot.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Inside the motel room, police found a bloodstained mattress with cat litter on it and cat litter on the floor.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
  • An elderly man in a bloodstained sports jacket carried a limp child, whose eyes were open to reveal only the whites.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Bathed in an eerie light, Yaser al-Hazzazi paused to adjust the bloodstained gauze wrapped around his head and face.
    — Vivian Nereim Tamir Kalifa, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Police received a bloodstained helmet from a farmer who found it on the side of the road the night Joughin went missing.
    — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Police said when Michals was arrested, he was found with bloodstained clothes in his residence.
    — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Grab a seat on the couch by antique rugs and a faux brick wall, or flip some tarot cards from their collection in a room that appears to have bloodstained walls.
    — Jennifer Billock, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The three photos showed two babies whose bodies had been burned beyond recognition and a third infant’s bloodstained body.
    — Matthew Chance, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Circe’s reckless and bloodstained niece, Medea, arrives once, her wrathful father not far behind.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Video footage showed bodies scattered across bloodstained carpets, with survivors walking around in a daze or crying out in anguish.
    — Samya Kullab and Tameem Akhgar, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Officers also found a bloodstained mattress in the basement and an apparent blood stain on the bed frame in the bedroom.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • It has not been cleaned since the shooting and remains bloodstained and bullet-pocked, with Valentine's Day gifts strewn about.
    — Terry Spencer, ajc, 28 June 2022
  • Resolving trauma isn’t as easy as leaving it behind in the wilderness or writing it down in a bunch of bloodstained journals.
    — Erin Qualey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The mass killing in Indianapolis was the latest in a grim litany that has left a trail of bloodstained sorrow across the country this spring.
    — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Time for a final showdown with the supernaturally strong man wielding a bloodstained cleaver in the mall.
    — Katie Barsotti, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The pair of bloodstained girls' sneakers, painted on a wall in downtown Kabul, serves as a grim reminder of the terror wrought here.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • His bloodstained vehicle was found abandoned in a Las Vegas parking lot.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The bloodstained ice ax used to kill Leon Trotsky in 1940 has resurfaced for the first time in more than six decades.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Another questionable decision made at the scene was the removal of a bloodstained mattress.
    — Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • The bloodstained word is painted on scarlet satin, the material of a cardinal’s cassock.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023

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