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Example sentences for: avenge

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Are they seeking to avenge Mobutu's long support of rebellions in their countries?
For graphic scenes of Horus’ fight with his evil uncle Seth to avenge his father Osiris, walk around the exterior of the temple to the west side, where the whole event is re-created.
Honor called on them to avenge their master's death, but the laws forbade murder.
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.
Perhaps it also reflects an attempt to avenge Reagan's rout of the intellectual class.