Explore Bloody through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like violent. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Bloody meaning
- Covered in blood.
- Characterised by bloodshed.
- Used as an intensifier.
Synonyms of Bloody
Using Bloody
- The main meaning on this page is: Covered in blood. | Characterised by bloodshed. | Used as an intensifier.
- Useful related words include: gory, sanguinary, red, sanguineous.
- In the example corpus, bloody often appears in combinations such as: the bloody, and bloody, bloody mary.
Example sentences (20)
Tearing out your hair because you can’t access your bloody account on the bloody smartphone for bloody days on end is not patience.
It's just business, a bloody, bloody business.
He also struck horror gold in the revival of My Bloody Valentine, with My Bloody Valentine 3D in 2009.
There’s a pickle martini and shots called “bloody maria” – mini bloody marys made with tequila; spicy, piquant and of course pickly.
The Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas serves the Ausser Rand und Band bloody mary with Hofbrau Dunkel, vodka, bloody mary mix, a Tajin rim and a soft pretzel, slider, bacon, sausage and more.
Anyone who has watched the TV show can tell you it’s bloody but also bloody marvelous, a grand female change from spy-chase standards like James Bond or Kingsman.
He declared: This Sunday became known as Bloody Sunday and bloody it was.
One particularly bloody battle on Bloody Nose came when the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines —under the command of Major Raymond Davis —attacked Hill 100. Over six days of fighting, the battalion suffered 71% casualties.
T" gave the six foot five competitor a bloody nose, and later a bloody mouth.
The song makes reference to two separate massacres in Irish history of civilians by British forces – Bloody Sunday (1920) and Bloody Sunday 1972 – however, unlike other songs dealing with those events, the lyrics call for peace as opposed to revenge.
A Bloody Good Thing opens in the People’s Museum on March 8 at 6pm.
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter is a re-imagining of the real man with a bloody twist.
Across the debut season, featured various video game characters, including Bloody Mary.
After all, given how many mass shootings we have all endured, shouldn’t our minds be veritable atlases of bloody grief?
After a long and exceptionally bloody struggle, South Sudan eventually broke away and became an independent country in 2011.
After centuries of oftentimes bloody fights against deeply engrained white supremacist views, most Americans of goodwill today recognize that racial bias is wrong.
After Hamas’ bloody massacre of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, the alleged president made his way to Israel and that he was sending $100 million to Gaza, which will almost certainly be seized by Hamas and go for more jihad attacks upon Israel.
After several weeks of knocking on the door, Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary” officially enters the Top 10 at pop radio.
A military coup in February 2021 plunged the Southeast Asian nation into chaos and widespread violence as the military junta launched a bloody crackdown on dissent.
And the blue sky of Ukraine with its yellow sun would be covered by radar from Putin’s bloody scavengers”, he said.
Common combinations with bloody
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bloody 27×
- and bloody 17×
- bloody mary 13×
- bloody and 10×
- bloody sunday 9×
- is bloody 7×
- in bloody 7×
- with bloody 6×
- of bloody 6×
- bloody battle 5×