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Example sentences for: vengeance

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Such policies are not only asinine, they are—and here I have found another appropriate place for the buzz word of the decade— counterproductive: the energies expended on vengeance are entirely wasted and should be channeled to changing the present system to ensure that they are not continued.
Ready for vengeance, everyone?
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.
Going back to Sankt-Peterburg from Leningrad was reversion with a vengeance, literally.
Quicklime is quick (that is, alive, as in the quick and the dead) because it is anhydrous (Greek for unwatered) and soaks up water with a vengeance to make slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, from CaO + H2O), which is what makes quicklime so useful as the binding agent in mortar, cement, and concrete.