What is "blood-soaked"

Usage examples of "blood-soaked".

It is a fact that hundreds of agents of this blood-soaked ideology became top advisors to Democratic presidents, worked on the Manhattan Project, infiltrated every segment of the United States government.

Anyone who has ever been obliged to play handball, football, volkerball, or faustball, let alone schlagball, in a field strewn with gravel will always, whenever he steps on gravel in later life, be forced to remember all the scraped knees, all those bruises which take forever to heal, which develop crusty scabs, and which transform all gravel-strewn playgrounds into blood-soaked playgrounds.

A dust-covered, blood-soaked nightmare of a man stumbled out of the trees, laughing as coarsely as a madman.

For his own sake, as well as to surprise her, he had to find the one turn on the one stone staircase where the Frasers and the Maxwells had met and fought together in the ringing, clashing, blood-soaked battle to hold Caerlaverock under Robert Bruce against the English.

But from the looks of the wound—what Sheff could see of it, which was a coatee blood-soaked above the waist—he might very well not be in a few days.

And the eerie noise he couldn't make out, was it the scissors as they cut away his blood-soaked clothes?

The seaman returned with a sandy-haired man in his forties who stripped off his blood-soaked foul-weather gear and gloves but kept his surgical mask on.

Even if she hadn't recognized that beak of a nose and those wretched features, frozen in a death grimace, she would have known anywhere the iron crown Lord John had worn to spite his enemies, now tumbled in blood-soaked straw.

As the chains of the swinging light fixture torqued, the links twisted against one another with enough friction to cause an eerie grining, as if lizard-eyed altar boys in blood-soaked cassocks and surplices were ringing the unmelodious bells of a satanic mass.

The sado-romantic myth turns into a brilliant, blood-soaked monster who brokers assassination with the expertise of a market analyst, fully aware of wages, costs, distribution and the divisions of underworld labour.

The sado-romantic myth turns into a brilliant, blood-soaked monster who brokers assassination with the expertise of a market analyst, fully aware of wages, costs, distribution, and the divisions of underworld labor.

After the autopsy, the blue mummy bag had been hung up so the blood-soaked layers would dry, and Dovci had noted that the velocity of the slug had driven it through the down from the sleeping bag, then through the foam pad and the tarp beneath, ending two inches into the sandy beach.

What leaked from around the circumference of the crack between those blocks—a fleeting impression of blood-soaked fur was all the man permitted himself now—hadn't borne close examination, and Eichra Oren had been grateful for the low, off-colored light.

Quickly, he took the knife and cut off strips of the wet, blood-soaked pant leg.

You sees before you the singed, skint and blood-soaked result of female treachery.