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Example sentences for: vengeance

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

"I think there's something between vengeance and forgiveness."
Yet the most Machiavellian proverbs pertain to government, Acton's view of power echoed with a vengeance: Always stroke the head you want to cut off warns one medieval example.
The editorial inside described Tucker as "a manifestly sincere penitent," and said, "One couldn't imagine a better argument against the death penalty than Karla Tucker, or a better demonstration of the absurdity of a social vengeance that is taken after 14 years not against the author of the crime, but against this other person the criminal has become in the meantime."
Graves writes that she became the embodiment of "divine vengeance on proud kings."
(It's important, however pedantic it may sound, to keep stressing that only "some" or "a few" partook of such vengeance, since even choosing to discuss these acts--and not the vastly more extensive crimes that preceded them--threatens to distort history.)