Example sentences for: vengeful

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

  • There's a big dollop of xenophobia here--old mummy pictures are full of stilted English actors pretending to be icily vengeful Egyptians--but there's also a less chauvinistic implication: a rebuke to our Western-imperialist sense of entitlement.

  • In an editorial, the conservative Daily Telegraph agreed with Thatcher that Tony Blair's government was doing Britain unnecessary harm "merely to enable the vengeful pack in pursuit of Pinochet to settle their scores."

  • An article on crime novelist Patricia Cornwell finds her obsessive, vengeful, and paranoid, and confirms that she had a lesbian affair with an FBI agent (who was nearly murdered by her husband).

  • "[W]omen [should] giggle with vengeful glee," says Newsweek 's Allison Samuels; the "big dose of sister-girl humor" is sure to be a crowd pleaser.


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