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Then Tom became Robin Hood again, and was allowed by the treacherous nun to bleed his strength away through his neglected wound.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLEED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bleed
 v.  emit blood; lose blood; withdraw blood from the body
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  Then Tom became Robin Hood again, and was allowed by the treacherous nun to bleed his strength away through his neglected wound.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
3  "They will, no doubt, bleed him; therefore I will retire, for I cannot endure the sight of blood;" and she followed her husband up-stairs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 79. The Lemonade.
4  The carcass hung for a few minutes to bleed; there was no time lost, however, for there were several hanging in each line, and one was always ready.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  Here the struggle was protracted, arduous and seemingly of doubtful issue; the Delawares, though none of them fell, beginning to bleed freely, in consequence of the disadvantage at which they were held.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
6  For a time I thought I should bleed to death; and think now that I should have done so, but that the blood so matted my hair as to stop the wound.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  In the morning Bazarov tried to get up; he was seized with giddiness, his nose began to bleed; he lay down again.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and bleed him and patch him up.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI
9  The regimental doctor, when he came, said it was absolutely necessary to bleed Denisov.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
10  She entered resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, at the whole room and the unmade bed.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY
11  I know you are not rich, Madame Coquenard, and that your husband is obliged to bleed his poor clients to squeeze a few paltry crowns from them.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
12  We learned how to bleed men to cure them of all ailments.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
13  More than once our hearts were made to bleed, as it were, because bills were falling due that we did not have the money to meet.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX.
14  His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though, if he were cut, he would bleed white.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
15  A Bulgarian captain came in, saw me all bleeding, and the soldier not in the least disconcerted.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The cut on my arm bleed for a long time.
2  The knife penetrated her finger and made it bleed.
3  You'll need to bleed the radiators to remove the airlocks.
4  All the young soldiers are ready to bleed for the country.
5  I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed; I say ground because it was ground -- hard packed, and no boards.
6  The best way to treat such bleeding is to apply firm pressure.
7  The nurse applied pressure to his arm to stop the bleeding.
8  The West is bleeding poorer countries dry through interest payments on their debts.
9  The blood coagulates to stop wounds bleeding.
10  Use pressure to control the bleeding.
11  Pinch the nostrils together between your thumb and finger to stop the bleeding.
12  They found him half naked and bleeding to death.
13  He has cut his leg, and it is bleeding.
14  Vitamin K is routinely given in the first week of life to prevent bleeding.
15  Help mom handle the profuse bleeding from her sweet little toddler's head.