Examples of bloodlust in a Sentence
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Once again, we’re reminded that no one wins in a fight, except the moviegoer, who gets to satisfy an inherent bloodlust by indulging in the second-hand thrills of an epic barroom brawl in Margaritaville.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
The film’s most unsettling scenes connect Becker’s murder spree with the bloodlust of the German public, foreshadowing the Nazis’ rise to power just a few years later.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
Some people don’t go through this kind of bloodlust, and that’s normal, too.
—Ayana Underwood, SELF, 9 Feb. 2024
The prosecutor was at her most confident and incisive, and the audience thrilled to her cold, mechanical bloodlust.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
Farmers who spotted grizzlies gnawing on the occasional carcass probably took the incidents as confirmation of the bears’ bloodlust, Alagona said—and, eventually, as justification for exterminating them.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2024
Hutchison deserves major kudos for his ultra-menacing portrayal of Tooms, whose eyes turn yellow when the bloodlust is upon him.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2023
The sentiment was understandable: Hamas’s unspeakable brutality in massacring some 1,400 Israelis, including women and children and the elderly, much of it gleefully captured on video, recalled the savagery and bloodlust of ISIS at its height.
—Cole Bunzel, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2023
Now Democrats who still oppose building a border wall are taking a much less forgiving position on the asylum system—a stance that resembles the pre-Trump Republican Party’s, while the GOP currently careens into open bloodlust.
—Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
The film’s most unsettling scenes connect Becker’s murder spree with the bloodlust of the German public, foreshadowing the Nazis’ rise to power just a few years later.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
Some people don’t go through this kind of bloodlust, and that’s normal, too.
—Ayana Underwood, SELF, 9 Feb. 2024
The prosecutor was at her most confident and incisive, and the audience thrilled to her cold, mechanical bloodlust.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
Farmers who spotted grizzlies gnawing on the occasional carcass probably took the incidents as confirmation of the bears’ bloodlust, Alagona said—and, eventually, as justification for exterminating them.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2024
Hutchison deserves major kudos for his ultra-menacing portrayal of Tooms, whose eyes turn yellow when the bloodlust is upon him.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2023
The sentiment was understandable: Hamas’s unspeakable brutality in massacring some 1,400 Israelis, including women and children and the elderly, much of it gleefully captured on video, recalled the savagery and bloodlust of ISIS at its height.
—Cole Bunzel, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2023
Now Democrats who still oppose building a border wall are taking a much less forgiving position on the asylum system—a stance that resembles the pre-Trump Republican Party’s, while the GOP currently careens into open bloodlust.
—Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined above
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