an eye for an eye

Example Sentences

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She offers a better resolution than an eye for an eye, in the form a honey-flavored absolution, baked with love.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2024

A common misperception is that proportionality in self-defence means an eye for an eye, a rocket for a rocket, or a casualty for a casualty.

From BBC • May 15, 2021

It shouldn’t be about an eye for an eye, or that old saw about the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2021

To suggest, in the name of a child’s innocent gaze, that putting food on the table beats an eye for an eye, for then soon enough everyone is blind.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2020

Here was a religion based on Judaism and the Mosaic code, "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth."

From Woman's Life in Colonial Days by Holliday, Carl