bloody sunday
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.19 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A 1905 event in St Petersburg in which as many as 4,000 unarmed citizens were killed by state forces.
name
A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
American usage
name
A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 14 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas."
- "So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”"
- "We eat and drink while tomorrow they die / Sunday, Bloody Sunday / The real battle just begun / Sunday, Bloody Sunday"
Usage
Phrases
Black Sunday
Bloody Friday
Bloody Monday
Bloody Saturday
Bloody Thursday
Bloody Tuesday
Bloody Wednesday
Frequently Paired Words
Black Sunday
Bloody Friday
Bloody Monday
Bloody Saturday
Bloody Thursday
Bloody Tuesday
Bloody Wednesday
Selma