How to Use vengeance in a Sentence

vengeance

noun

• The fire was set as an act of vengeance.
• Angry protesters wanted to inflict vengeance on the killer.
• Iraq … Afghanistan … the whole thing was about vengeance.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 May 2017
• Now, thanks in large part to Chloé, the look is back with a vengeance.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
• Cold weather will come back with a vengeance by the end of the week.
  — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
• The miniskirts that reigned in the early aughts and came back with a vengeance in 2022?
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Kelp forests along the North Bay have come back with a vengeance.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
• But the grass-roots vengeance was short-lived, and met with more killings.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• This year, the flu showed up early and with a vengeance.
  — Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• So Madeleine, in her way, has emerged from a chain of vengeance.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2021
• How did these fires form and spread with such a vengeance?
  — Eleanor Cummins, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
• And in her quest for vengeance, Tracey had come to feel even more alone.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 13 May 2024
• They weren’t conjured out of nowhere in a fit of pique or vengeance.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Sep. 2020
• And because of that, the going-out top is back — with a vengeance.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 9 July 2021
• If that’s you, get out there and start making sales with a vengeance.
  — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
• There were vengeance killings as the Taliban made their way across the country.
  — NBC News, 29 Aug. 2021
• Like it or not, 2000s fashion is back with a vengeance.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2021
• Still, could Adam be out for vengeance against those who harmed a sibling of his in the woods?
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• Then the other factor at play kicked in with a vengeance.
  — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• Bad habits have caught up with a vengeance, though his mind and sleuthing skills are still sharp.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Fowles also notes that Spirographs are back with a vengeance.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
• And at worst, as dark vengeance against the very idea of being slighted.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2016
• Sylvie has been allowed one purpose in all of this, and that is the quest for vengeance.
  — Nola Pfau, Vulture, 14 July 2021
• Swift vengeance is the order of the day, consequences be damned.
  — Eric Alterman, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023
• And one that won't be filled with vengeance, at least on Kershaw's part.
  — Paul Skrbina, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The race to build cutting-edge fighter jets is back with a vengeance.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2021
• Daniel Roth Daniel Roth is back with a vengeance—and a new timepiece.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2023
• But sellers have returned with a vengeance in the past few days.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
• And we're not supposed to take vengeance on other people.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• Pro-democracy advocates all over the world watched with disappointment and alarm as Trump took the former course, plumbing the depths of bigotry and fear, and vowing to take vengeance.
  — Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024