retribution

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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 The Wall Street Journal

But a number of EU countries feared legal retribution by Russia.

From BBC