Get to know Sanguinary better with 3 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like bloody or gory.
Sanguinary in a sentence
Sanguinary meaning
- Involving bloodshed.
- Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
- Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
Synonyms of Sanguinary
Using Sanguinary
- The main meaning on this page is: Involving bloodshed. | Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty. | Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
- Useful related words include: bloody, gory, sanguineous, slaughterous.
Context around Sanguinary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 37.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sanguinary
- In this selection, "sanguinary" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 37.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, circumstances, edicts and feuds stand out and add context to how "sanguinary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include diocletian s sanguinary edicts against and mostly in sanguinary circumstances must. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sanguinary" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sanguinary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Being widowed in one’s teens is unusual; being three times widowed before one’s 30th birthday, all of them on a foreign shore and mostly in sanguinary circumstances, must be almost unheard of. (34 words)
The sanguinary feuds between these two factions depleted, in course of time, the manhood of the Lebanon and ended in the decisive battle of Ain Dara in 1711, which resulted in the utter defeat of the Yemenite party. (38 words)
In his later writings he would attempt to present himself as an opponent of Diocletian's "sanguinary edicts" against the "worshippers of God", Oratio ad Sanctorum Coetum 25; Odahl, 73. but nothing indicates that he opposed it effectively at the time. (41 words)
In his later writings he would attempt to present himself as an opponent of Diocletian's "sanguinary edicts" against the "worshippers of God", Oratio ad Sanctorum Coetum 25; Odahl, 73. but nothing indicates that he opposed it effectively at the time. (41 words)
The sanguinary feuds between these two factions depleted, in course of time, the manhood of the Lebanon and ended in the decisive battle of Ain Dara in 1711, which resulted in the utter defeat of the Yemenite party. (38 words)
Being widowed in one’s teens is unusual; being three times widowed before one’s 30th birthday, all of them on a foreign shore and mostly in sanguinary circumstances, must be almost unheard of. (34 words)
Example sentences (3)
Being widowed in one’s teens is unusual; being three times widowed before one’s 30th birthday, all of them on a foreign shore and mostly in sanguinary circumstances, must be almost unheard of.
In his later writings he would attempt to present himself as an opponent of Diocletian's "sanguinary edicts" against the "worshippers of God", Oratio ad Sanctorum Coetum 25; Odahl, 73. but nothing indicates that he opposed it effectively at the time.
The sanguinary feuds between these two factions depleted, in course of time, the manhood of the Lebanon and ended in the decisive battle of Ain Dara in 1711, which resulted in the utter defeat of the Yemenite party.