bloodily
- a word derived from bloody.
Example Sentences
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The first decades of his life were spent under palace arrest in Istanbul, meant to keep him from vying for power—as Ottoman princes did, bloodily, in centuries past.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Visibly moved when discussing Ukraine, he insists that none of us can afford to become disengaged or disinterested as the war drags bloodily on.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023
Even though those uprisings were generally bloodily put down in the end, the overall trend was that laborers had to be paid more; their labor was simply more valuable.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Whether this would take the form of a constitutional monarchy, as eventually came to the fore in Britain, or an outright republic, as bloodily forged in Russia and France, was anyone’s guess.
From Time • Oct. 13, 2016
I was bloodily occupied with another patient when something struck me on the shoulder—a human hand, clutching it.
From Barbarians by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
