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
She said the word vendetta referred to "vengeance, feud and blood feud" and that Reeves' comments had made her and her family feel unsafe.
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
Now he’s a memory that Neil Druckmann, Craig Mazin and fellow writer Halley Gross revisit one more time, and at a point in Ellie’s journey when a vendetta threatens to obliterate her moral compass.
From Salon • May 19, 2025
However, even with my vendetta against Ambrose, I still had a great deal of time on my hands.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing vendetta
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Challenge, List 5
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