vengeance
Example Sentences
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Their destruction, he suggests, is not vengeance but good governance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
The lust for vengeance eventually gets the better of him, but Swenson leads us step by step to depravity through sorrow, injustice and humiliation.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
We get a taste of these Machiavels, who have none of the misgivings about vengeance that will plague Hamlet.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026
The second worry is inflation, a risk that disappeared for decades and returned with a vengeance after the Covid-19 pandemic.
From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026
It is a great story now of implacable vengeance and tragic passions and inevitable doom.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing vengeance
Words from "The Avengers"
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Beowulf: A New Telling
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 1
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