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Examples
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At Anis Munassar's bodega in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, customers are greeted by an X-ray image of a blood-clotted brain.
Antismoking Ads Linger in Stores Jacob Gershman 2011
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A devout Catholic, he was horrified by the sights and sounds of Aztec worship: its human sacrifices and cannibalism, its skull racks, its idols draped with human body parts, its priests with their blood-clotted hair.
Spain Says Hello 2008
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Deep scarred by innumerous wounds 'neath her helmet blood-clotted.
Satyricon 2007
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Solomon Kane leaned on his blood-clotted ax and gazed upon the scene with dull, mad eyes.
Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006
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They drink and smoke and eat well, and no one says the magical word that would open my blood-clotted mouth.
Jacob's Ladder Mackay, Colin 2003
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The blood-clotted barb stood out of the knotted muscles that ran down the right side of his spine.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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Mintaka looked back over his shoulder and saw that Taita and Meren between them had cut Merykara free from the wheel and drawn the blood-clotted weapon from her body.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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He sheathed the cutlass, forcing the blood-clotted blade into the scabbard's throat, then ran through the defeated Frenchmen to where the forward companionway led down to the lower deck.
Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
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With a cuff of one paw it sent the infant sprawling to safety before it slewed around kicking up blood-clotted sand.
The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954
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But that skull, to which ragged and blood-clotted hair still dung, was what he had moved to see.
The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954
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