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
Sawai was magnificent for the way she deftly handled her character’s many facets — vassal, translator, warrior, lover, avenger.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2024
Furiosa’s reticence is strategic, as well as a trait she shares with Mad Max himself, the model for her taciturn avenger.
From New York Times • May 17, 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
In attendance upon him was Anteros, said sometimes to be the avenger of slighted love, sometimes the one who opposes love; also Himeros or Longing, and Hymen, the God of the Wedding Feast.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
