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

Vengeance, I thought. It must be. What other purpose would bring them?
Madeline Miller -- Circe

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

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

vengeance = revenge

It was likely that Athena plotted vengeance against Telegonus already; this would add fuel to fire.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

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

She just rearranged food on her plate, looking at it sadly while Calpurnia served Jem, Dill and me with a vengeance.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

with a vengeance = with intensity

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.
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

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