be avenged
Example Sentences
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And Missandei absolutely deserves to be avenged; I wish that for us all.
From Slate • May 6, 2019
They cared so little about their street reputations that they would sell to customers who had robbed or cheated them, treating the losses as business write-offs rather than personal insults to be avenged.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2018
They have never asked for vengeance, nor even for justice—because their children’s deaths can never be avenged, because there can be no justice.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016
Every regional war, every confrontation, resulted in a kind of delusional Groundhog Day where old ledgers got wiped clean and brand new grievances were avowed to be avenged.
From Newsweek • Nov. 24, 2012
It would be very difficult for me to avenge all those who should be avenged, because my revenge would be just another part of the same inexorable rite.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
