Example sentences for: retribution

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

  • Soviet retribution took just 12 days.

  • The New York Times and Washington Post go with President Clinton's statement that Democrats should vote their consciences, with no need to fear White House retribution, when the full House of Representatives decides today whether or not to start an impeachment inquiry.

  • For over a year, the only real news coming out of the Republican caucus has been gossip about internecine warfare, tales about coups and countercoups, ambition, rebellion, and retribution.

  • A few pursued a Plan C: retribution against known Nazi war criminals.

  • The British retribution galvanized the Irish — and in the words of Yeats’s poem, “All changed, changed utterly.”


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