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.
  • Cold weather will come back with a vengeance by the end of the week.
    oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
  • How did these fires form and spread with such a vengeance?
    Eleanor Cummins, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
  • This year, the flu showed up early and with a vengeance.
    Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Iraq … Afghanistan … the whole thing was about vengeance.
    Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 May 2017
  • But the grass-roots vengeance was short-lived, and met with more killings.
    Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • They weren’t conjured out of nowhere in a fit of pique or vengeance.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Then the other factor at play kicked in with a vengeance.
    Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
  • But sellers have returned with a vengeance in the past few days.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
  • So Madeleine, in her way, has emerged from a chain of vengeance.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Kelp forests along the North Bay have come back with a vengeance.
    Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Swift vengeance is the order of the day, consequences be damned.
    Eric Alterman, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And at worst, as dark vengeance against the very idea of being slighted.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2016
  • 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
  • The race to build cutting-edge fighter jets is back with a vengeance.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Then there are winter days when bass hit jerk baits with a vengeance.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 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
  • Sylvie has been allowed one purpose in all of this, and that is the quest for vengeance.
    Nola Pfau, Vulture, 14 July 2021
  • But, the funding ran out and now the soda apple is back with a vengeance.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, AL.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • There were vengeance killings as the Taliban made their way across the country.
    NBC News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Meme mania has returned to the stock market with a vengeance.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Whether the flu will return with a vengeance this year is still anybody’s guess.
    Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • So far, the laws of supply and demand are playing out with a vengeance.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Of course, my migraine attacks came back with a vengeance.
    Ashley Jackson, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Over time, my symptoms started to creep back with a vengeance.
    Kat Elton, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Fowles also notes that Spirographs are back with a vengeance.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • Ward stormed back from his hamstring injury with a vengeance.
    cleveland, 7 Nov. 2021

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