avenger
Example Sentences
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In “One of Us,” Elizabeth Day’s shrewd novel of political ambition and personal retribution, the unlikely avenger is a diffident British art historian.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
A pair of abuelas named Dina and Mita go into avenger mode when a young guy grabs the last bag of Dinamita chips.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024
Constructed out of Japan’s postwar atomic-bomb trauma, the King of the Monsters has proven a remarkably malleable character, playing environmental protector or atomic avenger with equal aplomb.
From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023
He may not wear that obsession on his skin like Leonard Shelby, the amnesia-stricken avenger in “Memento,” or parade his demons in as symbolic a fashion as Bruce Wayne does in the “Dark Knight” trilogy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023
By being close to the avenger, he made it difficult for him to swing the sword.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
