How to Use bloody in a Sentence

bloody

1 of 2 adjective
  • He hit me and gave me a bloody nose.
  • The book is strewn with bloody corpses.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Get on board for this bloody train ride!
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That area had been dark and bloody ground.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The pads of his feet were worn down to bloody open sores.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • There would be no bloody court fight for assets.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • His left eye remains bruised and bloody.
    — Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The liquid ranged from clear to cloudy to bloody.
    — Jillian Wager, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2026
  • So if the cut is damaged and bloody, toss it.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Crying through the bloody mist.
    — Mike Stunson, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Show me a country that doesn’t have a bloody past.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • Here's how to watch the whole bloody affair of his films.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The scene is bloody and intense, and took three days to shoot.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
  • So bloody was the fighting that many corpses were left on the streets.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • And Ted was wounded and bloody.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • And fans are gearing up for what's been promised to be a wild, bloody ride.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • One of the officers said its claw was bloody.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The woman was naked under her bloody sheet.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This could be a bloody first-round series if Ant is healthy.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • One man is covered with a bloody white shroud inside a body bag.
    — Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
  • And there were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And things get creepy and bloody from there after some foreplay.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2025
  • There’s also a whole bloody section on, well, blood.
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
  • The title fight was a brief and bloody affair that left the crowd buzzing.
    — Luke Burbank, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Everybody's hands are bloody in this.
    — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Officers saw a bloody and swollen cut on the left side of the girl’s head from the punch.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The new storyline must be bloody good to entice them all back.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
  • If the diarrhea gets bloody or lasts more than two days, see a doctor.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 6 May 2026
  • If the diarrhea gets bloody or lasts more than two days, see a doctor.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 31 May 2026
  • Aiden is standing in the doorway holding a bloody knife.
    — Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 22 Oct. 2025

bloody

2 of 2 verb
  • He hit me and bloodied my nose.
  • His helmet was knocked off and his nose bloodied on the play.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The men in white entered through the open car doors and bloodied them.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The wreck left him scraped, scarred and bloodied but with no broken bones.
    — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 June 2018
  • One agent was left bloodied by a rioter.
    — Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The bitter strike stretched 100 days, and both sides emerged bloodied.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Videos showed people being beaten on the floor and left bloodied and dazed.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 24 July 2019
  • This isn’t the first time this season that Vrabel has been bloodied.
    — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Injured and bloodied, Sederbaum hopped on his bike and rode away.
    — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 21 May 2018
  • When Amanoel came back later, his friend was a few streets down, his face bloodied.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Thickly covered in white powder, the man’s face was bloodied.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
  • And, they are beaten up, bullied, bloodied and mocked on a daily basis at school.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • One child lies motionless and partially wrapped in a white shroud, her head bloodied with a deep wound.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The woman was bloodied, and her hair was cut by the blades of the arrow, the sheriff’s office said.
    — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The woman broke and bloodied a fingernail fighting off the man.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The Jazz bloodied their nose and stole the home court the Rockets had spent six months earning.
    — Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle, 4 May 2018
  • And Tatis’ knees and elbows, so to speak, were good and bloodied by the time May arrived.
    — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • In another, a man lying on the ground is dragged away from a group of attackers, his face bloodied.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2018
  • Boyles posted a photo on Facebook last week showing the left side of his face bloodied.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • He was bloodied in the first half, literally giving blood and sweat to complete the goal.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Antao was left cut and bloodied by the altercation.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • At the end of the season four finale, his body was found bloodied in a fountain in the building’s courtyard.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In the 21-minute stream, Manesar asks the men, their faces bloodied, for their names and hometowns.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • VerHagen missed the ball, which hit him squarely in the nose, bloodying him.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2018
  • In that last act, your character is battered and bloodied beyond belief.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
  • There was a large apartment on the main floor, which was occupied by a blond-haired gay man, who came home one night all bloodied and beaten.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Caldwell’s knees and fingers were bloodied and Honnold got a nasty rope burn in a fall that tore a chunk from a finger.
    — Fox News, 6 June 2018
  • The sight was an apt metaphor for the current state of a Steelers team that’s been battered and bloodied in recent weeks.
    — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Just hours after Scott was released from jail, Johnson was found by a friend with her head and body bloodied.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Physics took care of the rest, and while knees and elbows were bloodied and egos were bruised, the ensuing spill may have worked in the league’s favor.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025

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