How to Use comeuppance in a Sentence

comeuppance

noun

• One of these days, he'll get his comeuppance for treating people so arrogantly.
• And a guy like that needs to get some comeuppance in a movie.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• Still, some in the West did not doubt that a comeuppance was in store.
  — Henry Austin, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
• But then came the comeuppance and then came the haircut.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The bad guys get their comeuppance and good guys get to be heroes.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 26 June 2019
• Tell me about the process of shooting Hope’s big comeuppance.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
• The video, with a team of Black women wielding scalpels, is a gory comeuppance.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• Besides, he's seen a lot of those who've knocked him get their own comeuppance.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Rarely have two athletes gone head to head in equal need of comeuppance, of humbling.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 17 June 2017
• Sometimes comeuppance and justice are one and the same.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• But the fMRI scan, which is just over 30 years old, has already had episodes of comeuppance.
  — Kristen Martin, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• Stung by the rhetorical wars of the Bush years, Democrats are wary of protesting the comeuppance of a man like Suleimani too loudly.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2020
• That ought to be comeuppance enough for Kellyanne Conway.
  — Steven Lubet, Slate Magazine, 27 Feb. 2017
• The choice to give Evan Hansen no comeuppance doesn’t make dramatic sense.
  — Jason Zinoman, Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017
• For the many reporters in the room that had been browbeaten by the CEO or whose questions had been sidestepped over the years, the exchanges were pure comeuppance.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2020
• Except now the carelessness carries the weight of a comeuppance, and the craving for beauty and fame comes at a cost.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• These comments were met by an avalanche of claims that this was karmic comeuppance for a track record of bad behavior.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
• Nassar got his comeuppance in court on Wednesday, when he was sentenced to 175 years in prison.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• There are some people that want Baelish to get his comeuppance.
  — Meredith Woerner, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• But Gruden is not the only one who should be getting his comeuppance.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Set in a shallow pool, the scene of the king’s tragic comeuppance — his gilded footsteps around the pool timed to the tones of a gentle chime — was unbearably sad.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• Now, some of his fiercest allies in Congress are pushing for Biden’s comeuppance.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 31 July 2023
• There were skiers that day who saw Maier’s epic crash as comeuppance for his season-long daredevil lines.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• After weeks of deeply personal taunts from Dominik, the heat for this feud built to a fever pitch as fans yearned for Dominik to get his comeuppance.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• Some are tired of his obfuscation and have daydreamed of his comeuppance for years.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• As with all Seuss books, this one had a deeper message than a bad turtle getting his comeuppance.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Mar. 2020
• In the traditional telling, the troll that menaces three goats trying to cross his bridge gets a fatal comeuppance.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 5 May 2017
• Yes, those who were predicting Rookie of the Year might be getting their comeuppance.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Nov. 2019
• To Europeans, the crisis was the United States’ comeuppance.
  — Adam Tooze, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2018
• He’s got his comeuppance a little bit, but he’s obviously not redeemed.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024