How to Use bloodthirsty in a Sentence

bloodthirsty

adjective
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  • His purpose has been co-opted by other, more bloodthirsty men.
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The cast of Salem's Lot have a healthy (nay, bloodthirsty) appreciation for Stephen King's works.
    — Jen Juneau, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Quinzel sees these bloodthirsty fans as crossover potential for her own aspirations to domestic terrorism with style.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
  • But a bloodthirsty mob dragged Johnson from his jail cell and hanged him from the bridge.
    — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Out pops a bloodthirsty little xeno with a spindly tail.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The bloodthirsty orchid is left to die in the cold with all of Weddernburn’s other plants.
    — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2019
  • There are no sharks in our tank, just millions of tiny, bloodthirsty leeches.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2017
  • 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
  • Because all of these things will hopefully only make James more bloodthirsty at the start of the season.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • But airing bloodthirsty, rude, and evil thoughts about politics can be more than simply a trolling move.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Ye’s bars didn’t make the cut, but vocals from Jay and Frank Ocean’s soothing chorus are heard at various points of the bloodthirsty teaser.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 10 July 2024
  • 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

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