The battle became a tangled, bloody melee.

The horsemen clashed in a sudden and bloody mêlée.

But it was a bloody melee, and the cobblestone came out of nowhere.

There ensued a bloody, to-the-death melee in the torchlit courtyard of the castle, soon slippery with blood.

A bloody mêlée followed, causing heavy casualties among knights on both sides.

Suddenly there were more of the screaming Islamics in the position and it became a bloody melee.

The game always degenerated in a bloody melee, then, victory coming only with complete annihilation of your enemy.

To keep things from dissolving into a bloody melee, the Striders had to be blindfolded most of the time and carefully blinkered the rest.

It started as a protest against the draft and ended in a bloody melee.

Now began the most bloody and desperate melee I have ever witnessed.