Example Sentences

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Like many hard-core Twitter addicts, he seemed unable to log off, to let a grudge go unavenged or to filter himself in any way.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2022

It is a good thing that people who have languished in wounded humiliation, unheard and unavenged, have gotten to finally say what happened to them.

From Slate • Dec. 27, 2018

So far, men like Jonasi Ruziga seem content to let loved ones go unavenged a while longer, hoping their restless ghosts are willing to wait as Rwanda struggles to rebuild from the ashes of genocide.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hundreds of small, unavenged humiliations which had been rising in me for months.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

His murderers, however, perished before the end of the year in the most painful manner; for the death of a black cat, an eminently cabalistic animal, never goes unavenged.

From My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 by Gautier, Théophile