revenge

Example Sentences

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She urged the performer to consider, “Why am I saying this? Is it just to get revenge?”

From Los Angeles Times

So, the reviled foreigner, once disdained for his fractured French and suspected anarchist sympathies, got justice — call it revenge — on his own terms, by making outside the cool place to be.

From New York Times

Both sides will also be out for revenge and both sides will want to right some wrongs.

From BBC

And if they don’t invite the Aztecs after all this, well, beware of Montezuma’s revenge.

From Seattle Times

The prospect of revenge is not incidental, but it’s tempered by the value of forgiveness, which he recognizes even if he’s unable to forget the treachery that forced him and his daughter to flee Milan.

From Los Angeles Times