How to Use full-blooded in a Sentence

full-blooded

adjective
  • My mom's dad, full-blooded Italian.
    — Edie Kasten, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • These will come and go; some will be brilliant, others a full-blooded assault on your critical faculties.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Every time this family gets together, the sibling dynamics are charged and brought to full-blooded life by the actors.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
  • His mother is full-blooded Navajo, and his grandparents still live on the reservation in the Southwest.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • At its best, Tudor’s out-of-possession approach is suffocating, a full-blooded style that excites fans and sets adrenaline pumping through the team.
    — Thom Harris, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • That ancestor, his great-great-grandmother Mary Ground, was originally put down in the rolls as full-blooded Blackfeet.
    — David Treuer, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Farrell’s turn feels less like a full-blooded human and more like just one part of a complex equation — which is in keeping with the highly structured and allegorical nature of Allen’s film.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Plantation owners opposed the idea and wanted to include only full-blooded Hawaiians, with the expectation that there would come a time when there would be none left, said Robin Puanani Danner, senior adviser to the Sovereign Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026

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