How to Use bloodletting in a Sentence

bloodletting

noun
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  • In the vast bloodletting, these are just two more lives.
    — Shawna Seed, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But the ultimate goal here is to end the bloodletting in Ukraine.
    — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The bloodletting may have ceased, but only just for now.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, the war grinds on, with no sign that the bloodletting could end anytime soon.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
  • The bloodletting of Christians must end, and all who aid their killers must be punished.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 26 May 2017
  • The declines followed a day of bloodletting on Wall Street.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Those include just how much leverage the US retains to stanch bloodletting and coax the parties back from the brink.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2017
  • Half a dozen movies in, and the bloodletting hasn’t eased up — or gotten less popular.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The harshness of the attacks has the feel of a bloodletting better suited for politicians like Texas Sens.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Debris from the attack — the worst single act of bloodletting during the now four-year-old Ukraine war — was strewn over a wide area.
    — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • The bloodletting was done with, the slaves were freed, and the task ahead was to reconcile north and south, which meant the white people who'd hated each other.
    — Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
  • When will the bloodletting of great sports journalists end?
    — Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 29 June 2017
  • But the question is often raised whether Oscar's public bloodletting is for his own good or the good of those around him.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • That sometimes, the bloodletting is knowing that a thing will hurt us and doing it anyway.
    — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The declines followed a day of bloodletting Friday on Wall Street.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Greece, where the Noor One remained docked all this time, was to be the most consequential source of conflict over the deal once the bloodletting started to abate.
    — Alexander Clapp, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The bloodletting for control of the Rochester rackets continued for years.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
  • None was willing to entertain the idea that anyone but Israel was at fault for the Gaza bloodletting.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Because Cameron makes the stakes feel as real as our own real-world bloodletting.
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The question is whether the victims needed that, as bloodletting, and the question is should the justice system allow that?
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • Trump’s insults couldn’t stem the bloodletting of support from his party.
    — Kia Makarechi, The Hive, 30 Jan. 2017
  • To date, his career has lurched forward one vocal bloodletting at a time.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 6 May 2023
  • Then, with a change of setting, everything picks up again, as we are led into the forests of the title, and to a bout of bloodletting that verges on both the primeval and the surreal.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • A lot of bloodletting, but most of it happens so quickly that the impact is diminished.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • While the current bloodletting is hardly the first instance of tech turmoil, the circumstances this time around are unique.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • In the meantime, this week, during the bloodletting, good chaps from both sides have been quietly slipping away.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Jeff Garzik has a unique perspective on the public bloodletting.
    — David Z. Morris, Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017
  • Poland and Ukraine have seen their ties strained in the past due to remaining tensions over ethnic bloodletting in the 20th century.
    — Vanessa Gera, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • Dressed in rain gear in anticipation of the horrific bloodletting to come, each of them holds his or her own weapons.
    — Alexander Chee, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Of course, mass shootings are just one part of the national bloodletting, the sacrifice for freedom.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 2 Oct. 2017

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