Example Sentences

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The generally good news in job growth, with the blowout report of 353,000 new jobs in January and months of gains in manufacturing, is confounded by employment bloodbaths among tech and media firms.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024

While the Raiders-Broncos rivalry ranks a notch below the mud-baths and bloodbaths that define the Steelers-Browns and Packers-Bears rivalries, it’s always meant something extra to the players.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022

“I remember playing five vs. five, which are often bloodbaths with these teams,” she said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2021

As intellectual bloodbaths go, it’s been entertaining—like watching Jon Stewart skewer Glenn Beck.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2014

But as well as a rabid online fanbase, Being Human also quickly established its own supernatural mythology and unique tone – one where bloodbaths and sit-in marathons of the real hustle could sit scene-by-scene.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2013