How to Use bloodless in a Sentence
bloodless
adjective
- His face was bloodless with fear.
- They took control of the government in a bloodless coup.
- Her speeches are dull and bloodless.
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Murders tend to take place off the page, and many are bloodless.
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Alyse Burnside,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2021
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Part of the myth that has risen up around the events of 1688 is the claim that the revolution was bloodless.
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Declan Leary,
National Review,
19 July 2019
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His bloodless three tied the score with one second left.
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Lee Jenkins,
SI.com,
5 Apr. 2018
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Today, three tribes here are locked in a bloodless war.
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James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Oct. 2023
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But Fitz, who’d already drained a couple long and bloodless putts on the back 9, hit the approach from the sand to 18 feet from the hole.
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Paul Daugherty,
The Enquirer,
20 June 2022
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Yet by then the head was bloodless in the dust, sightless, thoughtless, and beyond words.
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John Kass,
chicagotribune.com,
7 June 2018
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A bloodless animal cannot survive for a minute in the wild.
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Bonnie Blodgett,
Twin Cities,
25 Mar. 2017
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This was not medicine to be practiced at a bloodless remove.
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Mattie Kahn,
Glamour,
25 Oct. 2022
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The trajectory was bloodless; the ball spent most of its trip rolling lazily along the ground.
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Robbie Gonzalez,
WIRED,
15 June 2018
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But this is still too bloodless a description of the East-West contest.
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Edward Rothstein,
WSJ,
23 Apr. 2021
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How the frogs’ tissues endure their bizarrely bloodless state for hours at a time is still a mystery.
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Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
22 Dec. 2022
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Brooks Koepka played a bloodless round of golf, the sort that usually wins our Open.
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Paul Daugherty,
Cincinnati.com,
19 June 2017
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Then came a wave of exhaustion, a tiredness limp and bloodless.
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Seija Rankin,
EW.com,
7 Oct. 2020
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And yet his playing is far from spineless or bloodless.
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Zachary Lewis,
cleveland.com,
31 July 2017
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Thom Yorke, the singer of the British rock band Radiohead, has been thrashing against a bleak and bloodless future for more than two decades.
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Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2019
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Months of quiet preparation for a war that was supposed to be swift and bloodless.
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New York Times,
15 Dec. 2021
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Both bloodless buddies can also be seen chucking up the deuces, peace signs ready for the camera.
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Hannah Chubb,
PEOPLE.com,
11 Sep. 2019
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If Biden had abandoned that commitment, the bloodless war would've turned bloody again.
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Joel Mathis,
The Week,
26 Aug. 2021
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President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled for 30 years, was ousted in a bloodless coup.
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The Economist,
14 June 2019
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The fights are always bloodless, always shot in slow motion.
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Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2019
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Then head of the military police, Jammeh lead a bloodless coup that took control of The Gambia in 1994.
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Mary Carole McCauley,
baltimoresun.com,
4 Aug. 2020
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Everything else about him was pale: his eyebrows were thin; his face was bloodless.
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Ronan Farrow,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2019
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre of 1974 is a surprisingly bloodless film.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2022
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The death comes as little surprise; there have been several weddings in the Game of Thrones franchise, and few have been bloodless.
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Josh St. Clair,
Men's Health,
19 Sep. 2022
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Chess is a bloodless game, and high-stakes political chess is a brutal game.
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The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
6 Dec. 2017
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Something that allows a faction of the military to, in a bloodless effort, push away the toughest aspects of the regime.
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CBS News,
14 Aug. 2019
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The accomplishment is as stark as the bloodless black-and-white to which the film, which was shot in color, was color-corrected.
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K. Austin Collins,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2021
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