Sentence examples for blood shot from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "blood shot" is not correct in this context; it should be "bloodshot" as a single word.
You can use "bloodshot" to describe eyes that are red and irritated, often due to lack of sleep, allergies, or other factors.
Example: "After staying up all night studying, her bloodshot eyes were a clear sign of her exhaustion."
Alternatives: "red eyes" or "irritated eyes."

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Recently, when she removed gauze from her arm where a needle had been placed hours earlier, blood shot straight up in the air.

In mid-September 2010, a month after starting the first program, he found that the percentage of red blood cells in his blood shot to 51.7 from 44.

Papik described how the giraffes sank to their knees as a stream of blood shot about one-and-a-half metres into the air, causing the hunter to vomit.

The director Joshua Marston, after making "Maria Full of Grace," a Spanish-language drama about the Colombian drug trade that received an Oscar nomination in 2004, has returned with "The Forgiveness of Blood," shot in Albania with Albanian actors and about a family feud in that Balkan country.

Rachel Niffenegger: "Blood Shot Brown Noser".

Blood shot everywhere, drenching the sleeve of my shirt.

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Antonio McDyess's blood-shot eyes welled up after the final notes of the national anthem.

Blood-shot eyes and a leery smile suggested a heavy night.

The only real off-court controversy in recent years centred on an advertising campaign, "Play like a Girl", for Fox Sports' coverage of the ANZ Championship, which showed Sharni Layton with a black, blood-shot eye, sustained in training.

According to a police spokesman, there is no New York State law that specifically prohibits a contest like the Kebeer beer challenge, although the law does prohibit serving alcohol to a visibly intoxicated person — that is, with signs of intoxication including blood-shot eyes, slurred speech and unsteady gait.

Without her, for good or ill, no Twilight... J is for Jane Eyre Jane Eyre suffers a terrible fright when a nocturnal visitor comes to her bedroom; the next day, she tries to explain to Mr Rochester that what she saw was no common English ghost: "This, sir, was purple: the lips were swelled and dark; the brow furrowed; the black eyebrows wide raised over the blood-shot eyes.

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