How to Use vengeful in a Sentence

vengeful

adjective

• The fire was a vengeful act of destruction.
• The robbery was committed by a vengeful former employee.
• The careful chess player, or the vengeful man of anger?
  — Thane Gustafson, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2022
• Throw in a few racist teachers and one vengeful ghost, and Jake’s got his hands full.
  — Jordan Kopy, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• Under the murky surface, the tale goes, vengeful ghosts await.
  — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• The final scene showed a vengeful Rhaenyra — now called the Black Queen — following the death of her son.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
• Can the ruler of a thousand deaths defeat the vengeful vixen?
  — Posted Jim Varsallone, miamiherald, 4 Oct. 2017
• Some fans predict Jaime will be the one to put an end to his sister's vengeful ways.
  — Elahe Izadi, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• So this gave me a chance to address some of those things, just not in a spiteful or vengeful way.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 19 June 2024
• And now, thanks to his performance as the vengeful Lewis Strauss in Nolan’s biopic, there was the reminder that, Oh, snap!
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2024
• The ones that survive are then traumatized and grow up full of vengeful thoughts, and the cycle goes on and on and on.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 8 Oct. 2024
• Mandy Patinkin, who played the vengeful swordsman in the original film, should be proud.
  — Natasha Reda, Glamour, 27 June 2020
• Just think Marvel Universe and a sort of vengeful wife.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• As though a giant had dislodged it with a vengeful kick.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 9 July 2024
• The point is not to punish a handful of powerful men to get some kind of vengeful thrill.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 10 Sep. 2018
• The Tanu Muino-direct video casts the pair as vengeful enemies in the elabroate scenario.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2021
• The coach was not just intense but also hot-tempered and vengeful at times.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
• She then becomes possessed by the friend's vengeful soul.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2024
• Many of the inscriptions are dark, pleading and vengeful.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2024
• Killjoy's vengeful protagonists gave me a lot of new ideas about how to kill men.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 29 May 2023
• While protecting Newt, Ripley locks and loads, and gives the Xenomorphs a taste of her vengeful power.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
• Which means Reddington can be benevolent to the righteous — and vengeful to the wicked.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2020
• Where does this latest send up fit in her vengeful repertoire?
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 25 Aug. 2017
• And spoken or not, both Starice and Antonia refuse to feel vengeful.
  — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2019
• The movie quickly becomes a thriller with the entrance of a vengeful, hungry lion.
  — Chris Kornelis, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• Some of Ma’s friends have proposed that the souls of infants who were abandoned and then died must have become vengeful ghosts.
  — The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2021
• Wolkoff went scorched earth on her ex-BFF of nearly two decades in this vengeful tell-all, out in September.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2020
• This aching nervousness brings on the vengeful and paranoid. . .
  — Armond White, National Review, 5 June 2019
• First, viewers packed theaters to sing with the witches of Oz and watch a vengeful gladiator face the horrors of the ancient Roman Colosseum.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024
• While Trump’s choice of Gaetz to lead the Justice Department is a clear sign that his second administration will be catastrophically chaotic, vengeful and corrupt, that should never have been in doubt.
  — Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Jan 2025