bloody murder

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Recent Examples of bloody murder Lucy wakes at exactly 3:33 am every morning, plagued by horrific visions, and her nightmares draw her into the orbit of police detective Ravi Dhillon’s (Nikesh Patel) investigations of a bloody murder and a child’s abduction. Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024 After a bloody murder sends a high school party into a panic, Winnie ends up saving her brother Jimmy (Aiden Howard) by killing Waters. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023 This one comes with sledgehammer and a penchant for bloody murder. Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023 What one neighbor described as a typical Friday morning in a small Houston suburb turned into a bloody murder scene over an alleged affair. Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for bloody murder
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloody murder
Adverb
  • The Penguins were down 2-1, but were controlling the majority of play when Rust was blatantly tripped in the corner.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Steve Ellis, a former deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management under the Obama administration, said blatantly partisan political messages have no place on agency websites.
    Kirk Siegler, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Those people have clearly not seen Browns QB Dillon Gabriel play.
    Vic Tafur, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This morning, sentimentality keeps you from seeing a situation clearly.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • One play after a Jalen Hurts fumble — and only three plays into the second half — the Philadelphia Eagles were trailing the Los Angeles Rams 26-7 in their NFC championship game rematch, with an offensive effort that was lustily booed by the home crowd.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 21 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Anne, too, is quite busy having her baby, noisily.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But what happens when everyone who can noisily quit already has?
    Keren Landman, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • One of Fidel and Raúl Castro’s sisters, Juanita, spent decades vociferously denouncing her brothers from exile in Miami.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Over the next weeks, parents and students began to complain vociferously about getting sick at school.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • When threatened, gopher snakes often flatten their heads and hiss loudly, mimicking rattlesnakes to deter predators.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • People were able to talk in most areas, though those who did usually didn’t do so loudly.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Shot in Montreal by David Picard, directed by Stefanie Soho, and styled by longtime Aldo collaborator Cary Tauben, the campaign includes moments like a woman walking onto a karaoke stage for a solo number and a young man at first reserved and then boisterously attempting to play the tuba.
    Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Adverb
  • Harris resoundingly rejected this argument.
    Carrie Johnson, NPR, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Those fortunes were made and squandered rapidly—Iran went from bereft during the Iran-Iraq War, to unbeatable two decades later, to resoundingly beaten a little less than two decades after that.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Bloody murder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloody%20murder. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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