retribution
Example Sentences
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Law firms that represented his opponents were singled out for retribution.
From Salon
On the day of the fixture, a "national mobilisation of Muslim youths" travelled to the capital seeking retribution, West Midlands Police's notes stated.
From BBC
There are signs that the public is tiring of his hyperbole and insatiable desire for retribution.
And yet such is the fear of possible retribution, or just exhaustion from the civil war, many Burmese people will still go to the polling stations, whatever their views of the election.
From BBC
But amid the various situations that arise out of the unlikely Cynthia-Stan relationship is a sense of retribution for youthful sins.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
