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Example sentences for: avenge

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To avenge these attacks, Paul Kagame, vice president and defense minister of Rwanda, arranged for the combat training of 2,000 Banyamulenge, Tutsis indigenous to Eastern Zaire.
The impulse to avenge is human, and the opportunities for it are abundant at the end of a war, when law and authority evaporate.
Perhaps it also reflects an attempt to avenge Reagan's rout of the intellectual class.
In more or less linear fashion, it tells the story of a violent thief, Porter (Mel Gibson), who, left for dead after a double-cross, re-emerges with an implacable determination to avenge himself on his ex-partner, Val (Gregg Henry), and reclaim some $70,000 that is rightfully his--rightfully in the sense that he's the one who actually stole it.
Honor called on them to avenge their master's death, but the laws forbade murder.