revenge

Example Sentences

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She urged the performer to consider, “Why am I saying this? Is it just to get revenge?”

From Los Angeles Times

On its surface, Atlas seems to be delivering a revenge fantasy: All those uptight women who rejected you will get dumped by the time they’re 30, guys!

From Salon

Kali, or 008, made a brief appearance in a Season 2 storyline — Eleven temporarily joined her gang of misfits to help in Kali’s mission of getting revenge on people who worked in the lab.

From Los Angeles Times

Not for revenge, but for necessity and before restoring “swagger” becomes the industry’s euphemism for deciding which Americans deserve to survive.

From MarketWatch

After all, the other and more significant promise he made to his followers was that once he returned to office, he would mount a revenge campaign on everyone who had wronged him.

From Salon