blood sport
any sport involving killing or the shedding of blood, as bullfighting, cockfighting, or hunting.
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How to use blood sport in a sentence
There was a disconnect between what outsiders perceived as a dated blood sport and the holistic, healthy lifestyle LaVere and so many others were living.
Toussaint may be demilitarized, but tradition is sacred here … and the citizens enjoy blood sport as much as anyone else in the Nilfgaardian Empire.
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“Nutrition science is a blood sport,” Nina Teicholz concluded after nearly a decade observing how science gets done.
Politics in the first Southern primary state is a blood sport, with no blow considered too low.
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This is the big league, and politics is a blood sport here, a tradition going back hundreds of years.
For those who see politics as an ideological blood sport, this is a victory—the triumph of cynical experience over hope.
British Dictionary definitions for blood sport
any sport involving the killing of an animal, esp hunting
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