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  • noun Plural form of bloodstain.

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Examples

  • “I could see there was a lot of blood in the room as well as large bloodstains on the bedclothing.”

    Robyn Browne murder trial: update from Old Bailey, January 7 2009

  • I needed my darkness, my scars and my bloodstains to feel like I mattered.

    Bryan Fenkart: To Be or Not to Be... Just Like Everyone Else Bryan Fenkart 2012

  • But prosecutors in 1995 were aided by testimony from a forensic chemist, who said that enzyme tests showed that bloodstains found on Arrington's sweatpants were "consistent with the blood type of the victim," according to court records.

    After 15 years in prison, man cleared Dan Morse 2010

  • It was the worst mass murder in Juárez in years, Cardona says as I gaze at the flickering votives, the bloodstains and bullet holes framing the picture of Christ.

    The Fall of Mexico 2009

  • Now that there's a Wal-Mart in my neighborhood, I could well break this resolution before I even sweep up the last shards of broken glass and bleach out the last bloodstains following my New Year's Eve party.

    Floyd Elliot: High Resolution Floyd Elliot 2011

  • Afterwards they found bloodstains and knew that he was wounded.

    Koolau the Leper 2010

  • A steady morning drizzle washed away bloodstains and threatened evidence at the site of the attacks, which ripped off storefronts, shredded a bus stop and left bodies strewn in the dirt of Mumbai's crowded neighborhoods and market.

    India says no leads in Mumbai bomb attacks 2011

  • A steady morning drizzle washed away bloodstains and threatened evidence at the site of the attacks, which ripped off storefronts, shredded a bus stop and left bodies strewn in the dirt of Mumbai's crowded neighborhoods and market.

    India says no leads in Mumbai bomb attacks 2011

  • It was the worst mass murder in Juárez in years, Cardona says as I gaze at the flickering votives, the bloodstains and bullet holes framing the picture of Christ.

    The Fall of Mexico 2009

  • Now that there's a Wal-Mart in my neighborhood, I could well break this resolution before I even sweep up the last shards of broken glass and bleach out the last bloodstains following my New Year's Eve party.

    Floyd Elliot: High Resolution Floyd Elliot 2011

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