6 example sentences using sanguinary.
Sanguinary used in a sentence
Sanguinary in a sentence as an adjective
A sanguinary disease nearly brings down the Laundry.
They escaped the sanguinary flood by climbing onto an object and subsequently became the progenitors of a new race of Jötunn.
2 a : consisting of or relating to blood b : bloodthirsty, sanguinaryIt's true cheerful isn't exactly a direct opposite, but 2b sure isn't positive.
He was also deemed to be "oppressive and unjust ... [a] sanguinary tyrant, [and a] perfidious negotiator".It was, in short, time to take out Tipu Sultan of Mysore.
No, but the sanguinary headline made me imagine a future where all biological stressors have actually been eradicated.
-- and I'd be perfectly sanguine about the sanguinary fate to which they'd unknowingly consign themselves, did it not take such enormities to slake the thirst of the mob; one of the Terror's distinguishing characteristics, after all, is that it is always so very hard to steer.
Sanguinary definitions
accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
See also: gory sanguineous slaughterous butcherly
marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson
See also: bloodthirsty bloody-minded