wreak vengeance
Example Sentences
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But this is no origin story: Bruce is already Gotham’s vigilante hero, lurking in the night and swooping down in his Batsuit to wreak vengeance on criminals.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2022
The creators of Game of Thrones have been touting the sixth season of the show as the year when women finally wreak vengeance.
From Time • May 15, 2016
Terrifying tales of "hell hounds" - ferocious black dogs, eyes glowing and teeth bared as they wreak vengeance on the population - have been the stuff of legend for centuries.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2015
Fowler added, “Barrymore said that he halfway believed that the tribal gods, in whose behalf the pole had been erected, ‘might take a notion into their whimsical noggins to wreak vengeance on the thief.’ ”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015
Nemesis wanted him to wreak vengeance on Gaea?
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
