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Example sentences for "bloodiest"

Lexicographically close words:
bloodhound; bloodhounds; bloodie; bloodied; bloodier; bloodily; blooding; bloodless; bloodletting; bloodred
  1. From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew:-- O, bloodiest picture in the book of Time!

  2. I had prepared myself, and was pacing up and down the shop waiting for the bell to vespers; my mind was made up to do one of the bloodiest deeds which I had ever attempted in my life.

  3. He had the air of a gentle young lady, but at need he could prove himself one of the boldest and bloodiest fighters in the world.

  4. During the bloodiest epoch of the Reign of Terror, M.

  5. He stepped forward, and by the flickering light of the candle which Marie-Anne held, he saw a spectacle which moved him more than the horrors of the bloodiest battle-field.

  6. If they do this they make the Dardanelles into the bloodiest tragedy of the world!

  7. Even if we were to escape without a scratch, they would stamp our enterprise as the bloodiest of all tragedies!

  8. They had come to Harper's Ferry believing they were about to write the bloodiest chapter in history; that the most desperate struggle in all history was imminent, and they were impatient to have it begin.

  9. Thus ended the bloodiest fight of the century.

  10. Relatively to the forces engaged, Albuera and Möckern are the bloodiest battles of the Napoleonic wars.

  11. Bennigsen, now aware of his danger, at once retreated towards Königsberg, but at Eylau turned on his pursuers and fought the bloodiest battle fought in Europe since Malplaquet.

  12. There was fought one of the bloodiest battles of the war (March 7th).

  13. In this respect, then, the scene of March 13th at the Tuileries was indirectly the cause of the bloodiest war that has desolated Europe.

  14. New York soon enjoyed the benefit of a governor of a true bigot stamp, grandson of one of the bloodiest butchers in the blood-stained annals of Ireland, Coote, Earl of Bellomont.

  15. In less than twelve months we shall be in war, and that the bloodiest in history.

  16. Ask any schoolboy to name three of the bloodiest battles of that war, and he will probably name Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, and Chickamauga.

  17. The Japanese War is commonly looked upon as the bloodiest of modern wars.

  18. All this time Clara Barton was with the soldiers on their bloodiest battle-fields.

  19. In the midst of the bloodiest battle, no matter who is hurt, Turk or Russian, Japanese or Spaniard, Armenian or Arab, he is bound to be protected and cared for.

  20. The bloodiest battlefields of those two days were those of Caton's Run of May 5th and of the thicket bordered by the Brock and the Orange Plank Roads on May 5th and 6th.

  21. Obviously the battle of Murfreesboro must be accounted one of the bloodiest struggles of the war, as well as one of the most heroically contested on both sides.

  22. Finally Burnside's well planned but badly executed Fredericksburg campaign had resulted in very conspicuous defeat and failure after one of the bloodiest battles of the war.

  23. The Army of the Potomac, thus organized, commanded, and appointed, with the new commander of all the armies of the Union with it, now awaited good weather to enter upon the bloodiest campaign civilized man has ever witnessed.

  24. The effort to establish a slave nation in the afternoon of the nineteenth century resulted in a civil war unparalleled in magnitude, and the bloodiest in the history of the human race.

  25. He had much military learning, and had fought in many of the bloodiest battles of the war, notably at the second Bull Run under Pope.

  26. The history of the bloodiest lawlessness of the American past shows continual repetitions.

  27. The frontier of the Rio Grande is one of the bloodiest of the world, and was such long before Texas was finally admitted to the union.

  28. The story of this killing of women is so repellant that one turns to the bloodiest deeds of Western personal combats with a feeling of relief; and as one does so one adds, "Here at least were men.

  29. The street of Lincoln, one of the bloodiest of its size in the world, is silent.

  30. The old hero showed by arithmetical calculations that his bloodiest assaults never occasioned so much loss of human life as did on both sides any long siege, digging, and approaches, and the starving out of those shut up in a fortress.

  31. To carry through in Washington any sensible scheme, more boldness is needed than on the bloodiest battle-field.

  32. Had there been no slavery in the District, this outrage would not have been committed; and the murders, chargeable on the bloodiest of all bloody institutions, would have been one less than they now are.

  33. Among these last are included those who afterwards became the bloodiest monsters that ever cursed the earth.

  34. This is a brief statement of one of the bloodiest fights that we ever heard of.

  35. It was the bloodiest day's work of the whole war.

  36. They were just in time to meet the advance of Hood's Texans, and engage in one of the bloodiest hand-to-hand conflicts of the war, and at length the Texans were hurled back and the position secured.

  37. The ancient sarcasm, that women have caused many of the bloodiest of wars, was largely disarmed by the part they played in the war of secession.

  38. On the very day of this bloodless victory, a little log church in southwestern Tennessee gave name to the bloodiest battle that has been fought west of the Alleghanies--Chickamauga being rather in the mountains.

  39. The battle, May 15th, lasted four hours, and was the bloodiest of the campaign.

  40. The army, upon seeing these movements, anticipated the bloodiest battle, on the day following, they had yet had during the war.

  41. Thus, after the conclusion of one of the bloodiest fights recorded in modern history, the first acts of the victors were in raising the voice of thanksgiving, and doing deeds of mercy.

  42. The losses on both sides had been enormous, for the battle of Soissons had been the bloodiest of the war.

  43. I was announced as the eye-witness and participator of a hundred actions, fresh from the bloodiest fields and still smelling of saltpetre.

  44. But really for such bagatelles as were concerned in this poetic part of the allegation--even Bow Street, with the bloodiest Draco of a critical reviewer sitting on the bench, would not have entertained the charge.

  45. For a thousand years this one plain rule had been the amulet for liberating France (else so constitutionally disposed to war) from the bloodiest of intestine contests.

  46. This name, which was fated to become historic, was gained only after days and days of constant hand-to-hand fighting and is now recalled as one of the bloodiest battlefields of the titanic struggle.

  47. It was the greatest and bloodiest struggle of all time, up to that period.

  48. The history of this beautiful little island forms one of the bloodiest pages in the history of the world, and one glance told that dreadful history.

  49. The personality thus formed would appear as a cruel and narrow and abominable monster, more horrible than the bloodiest tyrants of history.

  50. This Tribunal sent indiscriminately to the scaffold all the accused persons arrested by reason of party hatred, and very soon, in the hands of Robespierre, it constituted an instrument of the bloodiest tyranny.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bloodiest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.