blood bath
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"They're basically like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They're gold dust, but I think it's a bit of a blood bath to get tickets," she said.
From BBC • Jul. 23, 2024
At the same time, Ms. Sitharaman, the finance minister, was solemnly reading out the annual budget in Parliament, making no mention of the blood bath on India’s stock exchanges.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2023
The opera has sounded scarier and more chaotic — its blood bath met with bombast in many interpretations — but Runnicles insisted on the possibility of dramatic momentum at a more restrained scale.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2022
With no short-term solution in sight the final quarter of the year could turn into a blood bath, warns Giovanni Savorani, the head of Italy's Confindustria Ceramica federation.
From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2021
Under the British Raj there didn�t seem to be much evidence of the inter-religious hostility that would result in such a blood bath at Independence and partition in 1948.��
From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by Cox, John
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