Sample Sentences forvengeancegrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
vengeance as in: vengeance is mine
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Most Americans wanted vengeance after the 9-11 attacks.
vengeance = revenge
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Her evolutionary benefit theory of vengeance is supported by studies showing that a person's desire for revenge increases when others see their mistreatment.
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Pity, not vengeance, sends my arrow flying into his skull. (source)vengeance = an act of taking revenge
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Long-held hatreds of neighbors could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken, (source)vengeance = revenge
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"Vengeance is very sweet," Snape breathed at Black. (source)Vengeance = the act of taking revenge
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Hence, the "public prosecution" satisfied, as the bigwigs of the law still express it in their jargon, the turn came of a thousand private vengeances.† (source)
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Vengeance shall be mine. (source)Vengeance = revenge
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D'Artagnan had often meditated against the perfidious host one of those hearty vengeances which offer consolation while they are hoped for.† (source)
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Goodwife Gruff had hated her ever since that first day on the Dolphin, and she would never rest now till she had her vengeance. (source)
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Never, Regan: She hath abated me of half my train; Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue, Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:—All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top!† (source)
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If you attempt treachery I will take such vengeance upon you as never was heard of in all worlds from the beginning. (source)
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Are they praying for guidance, vengeance, acceptance? (source)vengeance = the act of taking revenge
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The commonest way of softening the hearts of those we have offended, when, vengeance in hand, they hold us at their mercy, is by submission to move them to commiseration and pity. (source)vengeance = revenge
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And for clappers who are driven by vengeance, their lie is a scale of justice, weighted evenly on both sides, finally in balance. (source)vengeance = the desire to take revenge
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with a vengeance as in: with a vengeance
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I thought I was getting over my cold and went to work, but it came back with a vengeance.
with a vengeance = with intensity
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She threw herself into work with a vengeance.
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Out from behind the settle popped the robbers, and set upon him with a vengeance. (source)
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She just rearranged food on her plate, looking at it sadly while Calpurnia served Jem, Dill and me with a vengeance. (source)
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They were now only dozens of yards away, single file, charging in with a vengeance, moving surprisingly fast. (source)with a vengeance = with intensity
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And then he leaped from the shoe box. At this point, things stopped proceeding at such a leisurely pace. The squirrel was airborne, and time swung back into action with a vengeance. (source)
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The twenty-five pounds I'd shed in Nepal came back with a vengeance. (source)
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It was not so much due to the pain and suffering as it was the tension of stress and humiliation that caused me to hate with a vengeance. (source)
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—but when Mr. Morrison discovered that he had no lines, that the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come never speaks, he became contemptuous of the part; he threatened to quit, but then remained in the role with a vengeance, sneering and scoffing at poor Scrooge's questions, and… (source)
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This, a corner-of-the-mouth whisper from Adamo who hated Leon with a vengeance. (source)
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I'm guarding what I have left with a vengeance. (source)
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My hands had begun to shake uncontrollably and my migraines had returned with a vengeance. (source)
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My thirst claws at me with a vengeance. (source)
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The pain had returned with a vengeance. (source)
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