Example sentences for: retribution

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

  • Jews, though scant among the revenge-takers, did in some cases seek retribution as well--and this chapter of the post-World War II retaliation has been especially problematic (as I explain ). In a penetrating essay in the Forward last fall, Hillel Halkin asked whether Jews who pursued extremely drastic retaliation were "courageously honest in seeking to act out what others merely dreamed of, or ...

  • Greeniacs, too, view natural disasters as retribution.

  • Soviet retribution took just 12 days.

  • Though the paper reported two days ago that Clinton had vowed to exact retribution from House prosecutors at the ballot box, it does not pause to compare and contrast.

  • In 86 b.c., Roman general Sulla sacked the city in retribution for its unwise alliance with Mithridates, King of Pontus and bitter enemy of Rome.


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