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Example sentences for: revenge

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

Before disbanding — and stashing its weapons in the jungle — the army wrought revenge on Malays who had collaborated with the Japanese.
Office of Special Investigations--continue the honorable policy of replacing lawless revenge with legitimate justice.
' The modern sense of ill-humored or rudely morose dates from about the mid-17th century, but the “u” spelling had taken over about a hundred years earlier, perhaps, one fancies, as an act of revenge by the churls.
A girl was never able to reject a request to dance from a boy, because to turn down an invitation exposed the boy to embarrassment and ridicule for his failure in competition, and could be cause for revenge.
Serbs, fearing widespread revenge killings, have fled to a northern, French-controlled city named Kosovska Mitrovika.