How to Use vendetta in a Sentence

vendetta

noun

• He waged a personal vendetta against his rivals in the Senate.
• And then, of course, there's Inaros' vendetta to contend with.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2020
• This isn’t a vendetta against cows or people who eat them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• This vendetta especially applies to the team which swept the Nets out of the playoffs in the first round.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 July 2022
• And, for reasons that soon become clear, he's got a vendetta.
  — Ew Staff, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2022
• And now crime and vendetta killings are on the rise in the West Bank, which is awash with guns, many smuggled from Israel and Jordan.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
• For someone to come into our group, have this weird vendetta against me.
  — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 1 Aug. 2024
• This is a personal vendetta, at least that’s what this feels like.
  — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2020
• An Armond with a stash and a vendetta is a dangerous thing.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 July 2021
• The two are caught in their own personal vendettas, perhaps at the cost of their own people.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 14 July 2017
• Each of the swans carries out their personal vendetta against Capote in their own way.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
• Imagine what somebody with a press vendetta and a dim view of the First Amendment would do with that kind of power.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2016
• Villarreal, who’s out on bail, said the police have a vendetta against her.
  — Jason Buch, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2017
• Bet even Kim Jong-Un hasn't nursed a vendetta against anything like Sessions has with pot.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 13 June 2017
• Trump himself, who isn’t charged, has called the trial a baseless vendetta.
  — Greg Farrell, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2022
• Many of the people who worked at Drexel have long felt that the prosecution of Mr Milken was, in essence, a vendetta.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
• Kasich was also the least caught up in the debate’s many micro-vendettas.
  — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2016
• At the time, Flournoy described the attack as a personal vendetta.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Beckham went into the game with a vendetta against the Cardinals.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
• Monkey Man is, on the surface, a fairly simple tale of vengeance: Man has vendetta.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
• And the claims against him were brought by SEALs who resented his leadership and were acting out of a vendetta against him.
  — David French, National Review, 3 July 2019
• Nature, just like the human working classes, has a righteous vendetta and the numbers to win a war.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• Vladimir Putin gets slammed for his personal vendetta against her.
  — Paul Jenkins, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Sep. 2017
• The secretary of the state is not empowered to conduct vendettas.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 3 June 2018
• Zuritsky dismissed the notion that the writing staff might have some sort of vendetta against Steve.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2022
• Huawei has accused FedEx of conducting a vendetta against it.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
• Many people have said the allegations were the result of a vendetta between Huth and Vergne.
  — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• Their missing children are dead, innocent pawns in the Prophet’s vendetta against Kirsten.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
• That act dredges up old vendettas, buried secrets and cold ambitions.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
• Trump endorsed him as part of his growing vendetta against Gov. Brian Kemp, who appointed King to the job.
  — Greg Bluestein, ajc, 27 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024