vengeance

How To Use vengeance In A Sentence

• The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
• It was said that national crimes can only be, and frequently are, punished in this world by _national punishments_, and that the continuance of the slave trade, and thus giving it a national character, sanction, and encouragement, ought to be considered as justly exposing us to the displeasure and vengeance of him who is equally the Lord of all, and who views with equal eye the poor _African slave_ and his _American master_! [ The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• I don't seek vengeance against those who tried to kill me. Times, Sunday Times
• Ava beat the rug with a vengeance, watching the dust fly through the air and circle in the late summer breeze.
• I am concerned to rule out certain options - because if they're not ruled out then we have fall into an "anything goes" mentality - for we have removed the very moral norms that would allow people to condemn what Hamas is doing and also prevent people from reigning in subrational feelings of vengeance/destruction/hate which tend to lead to brutal actions. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• Avenging something or someone implies that you have been a victim of outrages and vengeance is required. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
• He dies, vowing vengeance upon Rome, and sending messages to Queen Elizabeth, "whom God hath bless'd for hating papistry. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
• Could we stop dignifying its vengeance and violence as ‘rulings’?
• In great wrath he swore to take vengeance on the man who had dared to tear up his complaint so contumeliously.
• Alongside joyous hallelujahs, we find religious nationalism: Let the praises of God be in their throat and a two-edged sword in their hand; to wreak vengeance on the nations 149:6-7a. John Backman: Praying The Most Difficult Psalms