take revenge
Example Sentences
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Next season Brown will join young superstar Tyrese Maxey in Philadelphia, where he will have ample opportunity to take revenge on the franchise that just cast him out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Salon’s executive editor Andrew O’Hehir quotes producer Tomoyuki Tanaka’s summation in his ode to the original movie: “Mankind had created the Bomb,” Tanaka said, “and now nature was going to take revenge on mankind.”
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026
"It Was Just an Accident," by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, was filmed in secret and deals with a dilemma that victims of oppression sometimes face: should they take revenge or forgive those who imprisoned them?
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
The mechanic vows to take revenge, but there’s a problem: He never saw the man’s face, and all he has to go on is the telltale squeak of his tormenter’s prosthetic leg.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2025
Most of the people didn’t want to talk to us anyway—I guess they feared that someone might think they said the wrong thing and take revenge.
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
