avenger

Example Sentences

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Later, its soft intoning of “The world’s avenger is no more” embodied the mourning and loss of hope after the death of Hercules.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

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

“She was the outsider prosecutor, the avenger who was going to come in and bring about change,” Mr. Axelrod said.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 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