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
At the same time, Ms. Sitharaman, the finance minister, was solemnly reading out the annual budget in Parliament, making no mention of the blood bath on India’s stock exchanges.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2023
In the great cryptocurrency blood bath of 2022, Wall Street is winning.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022
Will Arbery’s “Corsicana,” which opened on Wednesday at Playwrights Horizons, is that second kind of play; if its story began any earlier than it does, it would be an emotional blood bath.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022
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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