vendetta

Example Sentences

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Later Roman writers dressed up the Punic Wars as an ancestral vendetta of the Barcids, the family to which Hannibal belonged.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

During a fringe event at Labour's party conference this week, Rachel Reeves reportedly joked the government had a vendetta against the peer.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

He re-teamed with Pollack in “Jeremiah Johnson,” in which he played a mountain man who becomes the object of a vendetta.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

But making the main hero of "The Last of Us" the target of righteous vendetta invites viewers to reckon with the concept of justice long prescribed in Westerns.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2025

They fought much more fiercely than Trent Bolger and Cyprian Cusumano, and I was shifting the balance of their vendetta by preventing Ali-Reza from scoring.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram