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Example sentences for: avenge

How can you use “avenge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Then, in 1684, to avenge countless raids against their ships, the Spanish dispatched a powerful squadron from Cuba to attack Nassau.
A profile portrays George W. Bush as a man driven by the desire to avenge his father and to best the intellectual elite who bugged him in college.
Both relied on daddy's allies, outspent their opponents, and sought to avenge their fathers' political defeats.
Are they seeking to avenge Mobutu's long support of rebellions in their countries?
The impulse to avenge is human, and the opportunities for it are abundant at the end of a war, when law and authority evaporate.