Examples of blood money in a Sentence

the blood money earned by people who profited from the tragedy They accepted blood money in exchange for the murderer's execution.

Recent Examples on the Web Her group was active in pushing the state to stop issuing permits for the bulldozing of tortoises in exchange for what many decried as blood money. — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2021 There were the foreign officials—including those specifically cited by the U.S. Congress for their gobsmacking corruption—patronizing Trump’s hotels and buildings, buoying a Trump Organization willing to house kleptocrats soaked in blood money. — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2020 That’s terror money; that’s blood money that’s not in their hands. — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2020 As an extra touch of morbid absurdism, if enough people text in support of a pardon, and Mona in fact absolves, the show’s sponsors will pay the blood money. — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020 Seldom Seen, still living Kansas’s Plessy v. Ferguson segregation, as a lonely man counting his blood money. — Armond White, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020 That would amount to blood money, in the opinion of some critics. — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019 Optimists may even glean some reassurance from the willingness of Iranian jurisprudence to deem women worth 100 camels in blood money. — Bobby Ghosh, Twin Cities, 8 Aug. 2019 Fame and violence are indelibly connected, and the stars of the screen must be punished for the wealth that funds their sumptuous life, which amounts to nothing but blood money. — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019

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