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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Her eyes growing wild with anger and vengeful desire, her body as tight as a tuned piano string.
  — Vulture, 29 Dec. 2022
• The first cast of the two was the stronger, with 73-year-old Ms. Englund, as the narrative’s vengeful witch, making chilling drama of her work.
  — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• And like those characters, she’s ripped out of her cocoon by a man with a vengeful agenda.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
• Williams played Halep on Tuesday with a vengeful clarity not seen in years.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
• Renner has narrow blue-green eyes and a face that can crumple—from playful to weary, vengeful to calm—at will.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
• Who are the people that are so outraged and so afraid of what’s going on, and either vengeful or mindful?
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2022
• The Haunting Of Hill House is here to offer another creepy look at a giant house full of vengeful ghosts.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020
• Some newspapers went so far as to suggest that the flames were the act of a vengeful God and the price paid for an immoral relationship.
  — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024
• Nixon, who had not yet revealed his crookedness and paranoia to the nation, was able to run as a levelheaded centrist; Trump is running more or less openly as a vengeful maniac.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024