How To Use Blood sport In A Sentence
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Politics in the Baltic states was a blood sport based on thousands of years of grudges.
AMBERBEACH
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Archery was certainly a popular entertainment, but not as popular as blood sports like bull-baiting.
Times, Sunday Times
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An extreme example of Western attitude towards animals is the so-called blood sports, most of which have now died out.
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It appears morally equivalent to blood sports such as bearbaiting and cockfighting that have been illegal for some two centuries.
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The blood sport is for the primary purposes of gambling and entertainment.
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The bulldog, although bred originally for close encounters in blood sports, was a cuddlesome, affable creature beneath the ferocity and gore.
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Having been raised on a rural farm in Norfolk, and now living in Stratford it sickens me to see blood sport taking place.
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Just as we find those blood sports that were historically beloved by yer honest working classes - cock fighting, dog fighting, bear baiting - cruel and thus morally repellent.
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On past experience with your Journal I don't expect this pro-blood sports letter to be printed.
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There is an aesthetic, if we can dignify it with that word, which distinguishes blood sports from each other.
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It's snobbery as a spectator blood sport, the social equivalent of bearbaiting.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it's true -- operagoing is a blood sport in Italy.
Where you pay $2,637 for your seat and see the tenor storm off when he hears boos and the understudy, wearing jeans, thrust onto the set of "Aida."
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Since when did the baiting of little old ladies become a blood sport?
Times, Sunday Times
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Since the departure of Jean Chrétien, who knew something about politics being a blood sport, the Liberals have become a party of pushovers, gritless Grits.
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No blood sports are involved: deer shed their antlers once a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bustard is a pelican-like bird that was completely eliminated from the British Isles by hunters, and only exists in those parts of Europe, like Germany and Hungary, where blood sport had been mainly confined to killing Jews, Gypsies, and the disabled.
Sherman Yellen: The Pelican and Me
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He despised music competitions, so integral to the classical world, branding them ‘a blood sport.’
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Anti-foxhunting protesters are continuing to demonstrate at hunting meets in mid Essex despite a Government decision to ban the blood sport.
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Hemingway was a keen sportsman but he was fond of blood sports.
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From the mass defeminization triggered by Mao's 1949 proclamation that "Women hold up half to sky!" to the flood of capital unleashed by Deng Xiao Ping's 1992 mandate "To get rich is glorious," implementing central commandments has always been a competitive blood sport in the Middle Kingdom.
Tom Doctoroff: Terror Squads and Smile Brigades: Can China Lighten Up?
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To use ‘blood sports’ as a tool for this though is outrageous and sickening.
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The bulldog, although bred originally for close encounters in blood sports, was a cuddlesome, affable creature beneath the ferocity and gore.
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No blood sports are involved: deer shed their antlers once a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seventy per cent of this country is opposed to blood sports.
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Despite being illegal in Ireland, the blood sport of cockfighting still takes place in some parts of the country.
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Now the games that involved, and we can basically say that they were blood sports, they might involve pitting of slaves or prisoners of war, against wild animals or gladiators.
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Since when did the baiting of little old ladies become a blood sport?
Times, Sunday Times
