blooded

adjective blood·ed \ ˈblə-dəd \

|Updated on: 16 Jun 2018

Examples: blooded in a Sentence

Definition of blooded

1 : having blood of a specified kind —used in combination

cold-blooded

2 : being entirely or largely purebred

a herd of blooded stock

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Examples of blooded in a Sentence

the expansive farm on which blooded Arabian horses are raised

Recent Examples of blooded from the Web

Birdseye, the Jackson County rancher, once raised a full-blooded wolf as a pet and still displays the pelt with pride.

— kale williams, OregonLive.com, "As Oregon wolves rebound, tensions rise over livestock attacks," 10 June 2018
Whaley and prosecutors said Brown was a cold-blooded killer who robbed her victim.

— NBC News, "Cyntoia Brown, sentenced at 16 to life in prison, to plead for leniency in federal court," 10 June 2018
Jaylyn Gough, a full-blooded Navajo adopted and raised by a white woman on a reservation in New Mexico, founded Native Women’s Wilderness in 2017.

— jayme moye, Outside Online, "Jaylyn Gough Asks: Whose Land Are You Exploring?," 31 May 2018
Studying green-blooded lizards could lead to new treatments for jaundice, or even malaria.

— laura yan, Popular Mechanics, "Green-Blooded Lizards Live With a Pigment That Should Kill Them," 20 May 2018
My mom, a nutritionist by training, was as reduced-, low-, and, no-fat obsessed as any other red-blooded American—nothing ended up in the shopping cart without a thorough inspection of the label.

— amiel stanek, Bon Appetit, "A Lactose Intolerant's Guide to Loving Cheese Again," 27 Apr. 2018
Does the show go so far as to suggest that Cunanan, like Matt Damon in the 1999 movie The Talented Mr. Ripley, became a cold-blooded killer because of homophobia?

— tom gliatto, PEOPLE.com, "The Assassination of Gianni Versace," 17 Jan. 2018
The drones use both typical cameras and heat-sensitive infrared optics, the latter of which can easily spot warm-blooded mammals in the dark, humans or otherwise.

— justin worland, Time, "Drones Are Helping Catch Poachers Operating Under Cover of Darkness," 31 May 2018
Other summertime events of note that will be offered include a visit from Jim Nesci’s cold-blooded creatures, crafts and a meet-and-greet with the animals of Midwest Bird & Exotic Animals Hospital.

— megann horstead, chicagotribune.com, "'Reading takes you everywhere': Libraries launch summer programs," 25 May 2018

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