How to Use bloodthirsty in a Sentence

bloodthirsty

adjective
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  • But a bloodthirsty mob dragged Johnson from his jail cell and hanged him from the bridge.
    — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The bloodthirsty orchid is left to die in the cold with all of Weddernburn’s other plants.
    — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Then she and her friend gossip with bloodthirsty delight about the latest heinous murders in the news.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
  • Most of the people who are against hunting of bears and wolves have never seen one in their life, and paint us as bloodthirsty killers, and that’s not the case at all.
    — NBC News, 14 June 2018
  • What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?
    — Huntley Woods, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The men who’ve beaten the life out of their opponents before a bloodthirsty crowd are never the same after.
    — Greg Moore, azcentral, 23 July 2019
  • And all of the haunted trails, rides, houses and forests are still crawling with zombies, bloodthirsty clowns and creepy creatures.
    — Liv Martin, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Zombies wreak bloodthirsty havoc after a tidal wave hits a small town.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • In place of the bloodthirsty mob, movies put the law in the hands of a complicated hero, a lone figure who dwells on the margins of respectability.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • This makes Grady just old enough to recall the childhood terror of a wild, allegedly bloodthirsty creature on the loose.
    — Stephen Harrigan, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • To enjoy the action is to share in the guilt of the bloodthirsty fans sitting ringside at the live-broadcast death matches between prison inmates.
    — Giri Nathan, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The leader looks like Zack Morris, embodying the bloodthirsty evil in this world.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The film presents the France of the Revolution and the Empire as an unfortunate episode of a country in the hands of a people of bloodthirsty and ill-mannered scoundrels.
    — Zenger News, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • An unforgettable scene in 2002’s Queen of the Damned, for one, was when Aaliyah slithered about a dark nightclub as a bloodthirsty vampire queen.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The overarching theme of this brutal, bloodthirsty show has always been the fight for survival.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Tom Hardy reprises his role as a reporter who shares his body with a bloodthirsty alien creature in this sci-fi/action sequel.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Vampyr focuses on a young man and occultist (Nicolas de Gunzburg) who attempts to free a French village from the curse of a bloodthirsty fiend.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The bugs are an annoyance every summer, but this year the bloodthirsty hordes have driven people to find creative ways to fight back.
    — Kris Maher, WSJ, 16 June 2019
  • Kissing!, only to have to sit through an hour and 42 minutes of the bloodthirsty and possessed Jennifer (Megan Fox) getting chompy with guys who see her as an object.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
  • But all of that ended in a few, horrific hours just over a week ago in a bloodthirsty rampage by Hamas militants through this part of Israel.
    — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • He was also considered to be a violent and bloodthirsty god, as well as a being thought to rule over evil spirits.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 6 Apr. 2022
  • After all, what kind of bloodthirsty conqueror wants to become a static wizard?
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The Pack are joined by the bloodthirsty Disciples and the money-hungry Operators.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 30 May 2018
  • In Lileana Blain-Cruz’s ungainly production, the Greek soldiers, in hokey costumes suitable for a school play, are a bloodthirsty lot.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The 2002 film features an elite government task force sent in to handle bloodthirsty zombies after an outbreak in a lab.
    — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • She was often seen alongside Cheol-su, a cherubic schoolboy with a bowl cut who, in the disturbing world of the show, is sure to be just as bloodthirsty as his partner.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 13 June 2022
  • But as a bloodthirsty vampire, this creates a dilemma: everyone in London is also a source of food.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 8 June 2018
  • Fling a bloodthirsty headcrab from your face using your actual hands.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Egypt wants stability and hates the idea of a bloodthirsty militia with Islamist ties ruling its neighbour.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • For those who find bloodthirsty Old West bandits too tame, behold a glitchy, malfunctioning shogun.
    — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2018

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