Example sentences for: retribution

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

  • It brought savage retribution from the authorities, and both leaders were executed.

  • Greeniacs, too, view natural disasters as retribution.

  • He told the paper, "[I]f the election is full of intimidation and it is not fair and there is retribution after the election, then I think we will have to re-evaluate our assistance to Indonesia in a very negative way."

  • The article was written by al-Quds al-Arabi 's Amman correspondent, Bassam Badareeen, who reported from Baghdad last week that ordinary Iraqis were becoming more openly critical of the authorities without apparently fearing retribution by the secret police.

  • The American avoids placing blame for Mir's woes, but does say his cosmonaut pals feared retribution from the Russian government.


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