Definition of BLOODBATH

Examples of bloodbath in a Sentence

Thousands of people were murdered in the bloodbath. one side was so much better armed that the battle quickly turned into a bloodbath

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Getty Images If the 2018 elections were any indication of our political future, 2020 is looking to be a bloodbath. — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, "How To Volunteer For A Political Campaign and Change The World," 25 Jan. 2019 That Oliver Stone’s hallucinogenic bloodbath got downgraded from an initial rating of NC-17 with the excising of four minutes of footage is a testament to the MPAA’s amenability where violence is concerned. — Charles Bramesco, Vox, "Eighth Grade’s R rating deters actual 8th graders from seeing it. What a shame.," 18 July 2018 The bloodbath in Tiananmen Square in 1989 interrupted such dreams, but Deng and his successor, Jiang Zemin, still managed to rescue the economic reform project and even negotiated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. — Orville Schell And Larry Diamond, WSJ, "China Gets Its Message to Americans but Doesn’t Want to Reciprocate," 21 Dec. 2018 Russian forces are preparing for an assault on Syria’s Idlib province, a move the U.S. repeatedly has warned likely would result in a bloodbath the scale of which has not been seen in Syria’s seven-year war. — Frank Miles, Fox News, "US plays down talk of imminent pullout of forces from Syria," 6 Sep. 2018 Here’s a gentle primer Nobody knows why the cryptocurrency market has turned into such a bloodbath—just as no one really knew why cryptocurrencies enjoyed such a spectacular rise a year ago. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "Bitcoin and Ethereum fall to lows not seen since 2017," 19 Nov. 2018 When the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran meet in Tehran Friday, Sept. 7, all eyes will be on their diplomacy averting a bloodbath in Idlib, Syria's crowded northwestern province and last opposition stronghold. — Jon Gambrell And Nasser Karimi, Fox News, "Syria summit in Iran may decide Idlib military offensive," 7 Sep. 2018 Even at the valuations, because of the financial bloodbath. — Eric Johnson, Recode, "Why Uber will win the scooter wars," 6 Aug. 2018 Hodor? — and the supporting categories are usually far less competitive than the bloodbath that is the Lead Actor/Actress In A Drama Series fight. — refinery29.com, "The 2018 Emmys Love The Lannisters More Than The Starks," 12 July 2018

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