Sentence examples for bloodlust from inspiring English sources
noun
A desire for extreme violence and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.
"The killing process, it's completely the opposite of bloodlust," he said.
The killing process, it's the opposite of bloodlust.
They are driven by warped ideology and bloodlust".
But for many a medieval historian, his bloodlust was too great.
Even if you decide not to adapt your schedule to your children's new needs, they will outwit you with their handheld tablets and their relentless CGI bloodlust.
In the city of Cholula, which was loyal to Moctezuma, Cortés's Spanish and Tlaxcalan forces massacred thousands in the main square, though accounts differ as to whether it was a pre-emptive strike to fend off an attack or a simple case of bloodlust.
But that was never going to satisfy the country's corporate bloodlust.
He brought an end to the chaos of the revolution, the bloodlust of the Terror and the corruption of the Directory.Napoleon was a military genius.
In its bloodlust and ambition to hold territory, it certainly resembles the jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
The justice secretary appears unmoved.There are no professional witch-finders or catch-22 dunkings in modern Britain; there are fewer epidemics or livestock blights of the kind that fuelled the bloodlust of the witch-hunts.
Now it is only the once-reviled army that stands between minority Muslims and the bloodlust of Buddhist chauvinists.In Rakhine animosity towards Muslims goes back a long way, and now that central political control is loosening, old scores are being settled.
