How to Use bloodstain in a Sentence

bloodstain

noun

• Then to jib down and find that sad ignominy of his body in the sack with the bloodstain.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
• There were bloodstains on the pavement and spent shell cartridges all about.
  — Matt Surman Anushka Patil Juston Jones Julie Ho Julie Ho Julie Ho Monika Pronczuk Emile Ducke Andrea Kannapell The New York Times Monika Pronczuk Anushka Patil Farnaz Fassihi Andrea Kannapell Carlotta Gall Cassandra Vinograd Cassandra Vinograd Michael D. Shear Marc Santora Maya King Michael D. Shear Marc Santora Michael D. Shear Cassandra Vinograd Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi Farna, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Or police spot a tiny but suspicious bloodstain at a crime scene.
  — Harini Barath, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
• His T-shirt had a bloodstain on its right sleeve, and more blood was smeared on the bedsheets.
  — Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
• The cleaners wash bloodstains and collect body parts in plastic bags or carts.
  — Sharif Hassan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• There’s also the ominous carpet, which looks a good deal like a bloodstain.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 9 Jan. 2017
• In a return visit later in the day, she was struck by the smell of bleach, used to clean up bloodstains.
  — Cincinnati.com, 27 Dec. 2019
• Officers noticed a bloodstain near the front door of the home and went inside.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2025
• Laundresses tread clothing in vats of urine, the only thing strong enough to shift bloodstains.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• The camera pans out to show that there are even more bloodstains splashed over the subflooring of the living room.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
• By the end of the video, Crutcher is on the ground with a large bloodstain on the front of his T-shirt.
  — Holly Yan and Justin Gamble, CNN, 15 May 2017
• Some hand bloodstains traced angles at odds with each other as well, off by as much as 10 degrees.
  — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, 16 July 2018
• Isola broadened his bloodstain search and passed the laundromat again.
  — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
• There was the urban carp mission that put us in a Phoenix motel with bloodstains on the carpet.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2020
• To make matters worse, the detectives had also found a small bloodstain on Quinn’s sheets.
  — Sean Dooley, ABC News, 3 June 2021
• Out of the bloodstains shone a pair of bright blue eyes, and a heart was beating under the pallid skin that looked several sizes too big.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• Outside a car wash where two people died, a smatter of small bloodstains can still be seen on the white exterior wall.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• The audience erupts with excitement while workers move quickly to wipe fresh bloodstains off the mat for the next fight.
  — John McCall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
• Watson said there were apparent bloodstains found throughout the house and on multiple items.
  — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
• Police found bloodstains in the BMW, including the hood, side-step bar and rear wheel.
  — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
• Tests on the fingernail scraping and one of the bloodstains were inconclusive.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
• At Alex Schachter's desk - a bloodstain on other side of silver bar that connects the plastic seat to the desk.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
• The pictures, which contain bloodstains, show the bag used to carry the bomb as well as some of the shrapnel that was packed around the explosive.
  — Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
• When David comes to, Sister Andrea is standing next to him, her hand on the bloodstain on his chest.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 25 July 2024
• The bloodstains, since tested, did not contain Aguirre’s DNA.
  — Krista Torralva, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The encounter left him with a bloody nose and hand, and her with bloodstains – possibly from offensive action – on her forearm.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 22 June 2019
• The color had drained from his father’s face, Vato recalls, and a sizable gash across the top of his head left a bloodstain on his pillow.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
• A little before the four-minute mark, the men draw close enough to the camera that the bloodstains on the attacker’s stomach come into focus.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
• Following the trail of bloodstains on the wall, Blaha entered the bathroom near the front door of the home to find Mary on the ground.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• The building once housed a saloon that saw its share of shootouts and robberies—paranormal researchers claim to have found a reappearing bloodstain there.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026