: one of two men pledged to mutual loyalty by a ceremonial use of each other's blood
blood brotherhoodnoun
Example Sentences
He would never betray me—he's my blood brother.
Recent Examples on the WebLil Gotit, Render’s blood brother and fellow Atlanta rapper, shared the news on Instagram late Friday evening. Shirley Ju, Variety, 14 May 2022 Bon, his blood brother, is still determined to kill communists and has no idea that the narrator is one.Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021 His blood brother Storm Shadow is also his archenemy.NBC News, 10 Jan. 2020 All of this – as well as the way race poisons the relation between blood brothers – is baked into his play; the opening performance at APT made clear that Parson is much too good a director to ignore it. Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2018 Even the central drama of the Winter Olympics — the rapprochement between blood brothers North and South Korea — feeds into the narrative of ethnic nationalism. Brook Larmer, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018 Are James and Irving blood brothers if there's bad blood between them? Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 31 Jan. 2018 The attacks marked the beginning of a terrible new season, one that would, alas, blossom in 2015 and 2016 when 239 people died in a series of terrorist attacks in France, some masterminded by other pairs of blood brothers. Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2017 See More