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

“A Column of Fire” serves as a useful reminder that religious tolerance comes slowly — that Catholics and Protestants once battled each other as fiercely and bloodily as Sunni and Shia.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2017

Profiting from lessons learned full bloodily upon Ganymede, we resolved to prolong the existence of the human race as long as possible.

From Spacehounds of IPC by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)