Sentence examples for bloodletting from inspiring English sources

'bloodletting' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to the ancient practice of removing blood from a person in order to cure them of certain ailments. For example, "In the 16th century, bloodletting was a common approach to treating a variety of illnesses."

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bloodletting

verb

Present participle of bloodlet

Exact(60)

We're going to need to get to the bottom of quite how Daisy and Cara's bloodletting rejuvenation of Herrick worked sooner or later.

A wave of sectarian bloodletting elsewhere in the country cast doubt on the survival of Nuri al-Maliki's Shia-dominated coalition government.

In July, Mr Immelt said that he would reorganise GE Capital's 26 financial businesses into four big units, which seemed to presage bloodletting.

As it happened, even AIG's rescue did not stop the bloodletting.

But there has been no fresh wave of bloodletting since December 26th, when 50,000 troops were deployed to provide extra security.A few months back the BNP had the moral high ground.

More than 100 soldiers and policemen have died in the violence.It helps that relative calm has now settled in, following a crescendo of bloodletting after the security forces stormed two pro-Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo on August 14th.

A more cynical view is that the FSA has survived as long as it has without bloodletting because it is the brainchild of Gordon Brown.In 1997 Mr Brown, then chancellor of the exchequer, took bank supervision from the Bank of England and gave it to a new creation, the FSA, with a view to integrating the oversight of increasingly diversified financial firms.

The influx of Syrian refugees and violence between Hezbollah supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad and their Lebanese Sunni rivals threaten further fragmentation and bloodletting.

The bombs ignited an unprecedented spate of sectarian bloodletting.

This lends subtlety and authority to Mr Sardesai's portrayal of a politician who tends either to be slavishly lauded, for his success as an administrator in Gujarat, or castigated as a Hindu chauvinist, who presided over one of India's worst incidents of communal bloodletting.

Lawyers fear that, without due process, the retribution may mirror the slaughter in 1991, when Shia militants murdered Baathists, and their uprising collapsed in blood and chaos.Is the thirst for bloodletting the way the ayatollah would like to be remembered?

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