Example sentences for: comeuppance

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

  • Story 1 is about the excesses of the leveraged buyout era--exemplified by the RJR Nabisco merger--and the comeuppance of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which saddled the merged firm with unbearable debt.

  • But he stretched too far, in his price tag and his claims, and now Kloss' Cambridge has delivered his comeuppance.

  • Like NYU's list, Slate 'slist has only two discernible effects: It validates already popular opinions (Did you already think Reich's book deserved a comeuppance?

  • He's in for the comeuppance of his life.

  • Or a comeuppance may lead to a bringdown .


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