Sample sentences for VENGEANCE

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
vengeance is mine

Definition

the act of taking revenge

(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)

vengeance = revenge

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Her evolutionary benefit theory of vengeance is supported by studies showing that a person's desire for revenge increases when others see their mistreatment.

vengeance = revenge

Long-held hatreds of neighbors could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken,
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

vengeance = revenge

Meliboeus answers, that he should do vengeance on his enemies, who had done him wrong.
Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Canterbury Tales

vengeance = take revenge

We will have our vengeance on you, their voices crackled.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

vengeance = revenge

Let Rebecca stand upon the gibbet and send up some righteous prayer, and I fear she'll wake a vengeance on you.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

vengeance = revenge

Only this consider: the world goes mad, and it profit nothing you should lay the cause to the vengeance of a little girl.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

vengeance = the act of taking revenge

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

vengeance = revenge

vengeance = revenge

vengeance = revenge

2 —as in:
with a vengeance

Definition

with intensity

I thought I was getting over my cold and went to work, but it came back with a vengeance.

with a vengeance = with intensity

Other Uses (with this meaning)

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.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses

with a vengeance = with intensity

It was not so much due to the pain and suffering as itwas the tension of stress and humiliation that caused me to hate with a vengeance.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
And with them gone, especially in northern Afghanistan, poppy planting had resumed with a vengeance.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
I'm guarding what I have left with a vengeance.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
Evangeline and Ptolemus return with a vengeance, locking Cal into a chaotic dance of knives and shrapnel.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
The twenty-five pounds I'd shed in Nepal came back with a vengeance.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
The eye of the outside world, which had slipped away from the Dragon Lady these last few years, had now returned with a vengeance.
Stephen King -- Misery
Griffin contra mundum .... with a vengeance.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
To go for so long without prey and suddenly to have so many—his pent-up hunting instinct was lashing out with a vengeance.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

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