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
Cooperation between the United States and the Taliban began in earnest during the evacuation last summer, in order to avoid a blood bath in the capital.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022
Mr. Partnoy said Mr. Mitts’s research focused on the short term, which can be “an absolute blood bath for short sellers.”
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 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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