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A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods.
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A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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The cultists gathered around a chalice of blood.
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A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).
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One of the four humours in the human body.
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A blood test or blood sample.
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The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
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The juice of anything, especially if red.
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Temper of mind; disposition; mood
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A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
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A blood horse, one of good pedigree.
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Bloodshed.
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They came looking for blood.
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To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
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To let blood (from); to bleed.
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To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.
Examples of blood in a Sentence
Blood raced up her neck to warm her cheeks.
The blood pounded in her neck and temples.
The sight of her bruised cheek made his blood boil.
The blood left her head in a race to her feet and her knees melted to follow.
Blood pulsed painfully in her throat, and her face grew warm.
I see this blood flowing now.
I am made of flesh and blood and bone, am I not?
But even suppose blood should flow.
She could feel the blood drain from her face.
Her body was stiff from her father's blows, her blood racing.
This case was a twelve year old girl, shot in cold blood as she sat alone at the poolside of her California home.
Blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring.
But, fortunately for her, she felt her eyes growing misty, she saw nothing clearly, her pulse beat a hundred to the minute, and the blood throbbed at her heart.
Even so, it was as if a something had been lifted from her chest, allowing the flow of oxygen and blood to a starving brain.
Blood left her head so fast that for a moment she thought she would faint.
The blood drained from her face.
His face was bloodied, and one arm was covered in blood from his shoulder wound.
The conference hall was dimly lit, and he immediately smelled the blood of a recent kill.
A deep saucer of black blood was taken from his hairy arm and only then was he able to relate what had happened to him.
Blood pulsed vigorously into her neck.
No stone left unturned until I see the blood of my tipster-nemesis flood the ground beneath her panicked body.
Blood splattered her as someone dropped from the cot beside her to the floor.
The cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his breeches and arm.
Drain the blood from men's veins and put in water instead, then there will be no more war!
Only the delighted "Uncle" dismounted, and cut off a pad, shaking the hare for the blood to drip off, and anxiously glancing round with restless eyes while his arms and legs twitched.
But at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break and tear whatever came to his hand.
There's a lot of blood.
Scarcely had Pierre laid his head on the pillow before he felt himself falling asleep, but suddenly, almost with the distinctness of reality, he heard the boom, boom, boom of firing, the thud of projectiles, groans and cries, and smelled blood and powder, and a feeling of horror and dread of death seized him.
The man glanced up and she put a hand to her throat, feeling the blood drain from her face.
Lisa stared up at him, the blood draining from her face.
All the blood which had seemed congested somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes.
Blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could not rise.
He examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find blood on it.
But he's sucked our blood and now he thinks he's quit of us.
They rounded the corner of the building to see a group of men lounging against the fence, watching a display that made Carmen's blood run cold.
Who would have thought he would become attached to a child that was neither his own blood nor male?
It was her dream all over, the flashes of light, darkness and blood, the scent of sulfur and death.
The grass, the road, the steps…all were littered with bodies and soaked in blood.
Taran, if my blood is joined, my people will die!
I've watched over her for many years now, and I know Tiyan's strength comes from her blood.
His words made her blood quicken.
She turned at his voice, blood quickening.
As his words soaked in, blood pumped in her temples.
Blood pounded in her ears.
The blood rushed to Petya's face and he grasped his pistol.
The blood rushed to Natasha's face and her feet involuntarily moved, but she could not jump up and run out.
He seemed at once disgusted by the fact she was a difficult mortal blood monkey and yet primitively protective, holding her as she quaked after her run-in with a man who wanted to kill her.
The taste of death was in her mouth and if she looked, she knew her shoes would be covered in blood.
She smelled his blood, felt the weakness of his body when their skin met.
She'd never thought she'd find a reason to want some creature to suck her blood; if ever, now was the time.