How to Use vengeful in a Sentence

vengeful

adjective
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  • 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
  • Just think Marvel Universe and a sort of vengeful wife.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Killjoy's vengeful protagonists gave me a lot of new ideas about how to kill men.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 29 May 2023
  • 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
  • Her eyes growing wild with anger and vengeful desire, her body as tight as a tuned piano string.
    — Vulture, 29 Dec. 2022
  • And like those characters, she’s ripped out of her cocoon by a man with a vengeful agenda.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • That was Mare at her most brittle and her most vengeful, and the best indicator of how Mare tends to act first, think second.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2021
  • But, unlike Keanu Reeves’s vengeful hitman, Robin isn’t out for revenge, just for his pig.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
  • The overplotted script starts with young Madeleine’s abuse and her vengeful, gun-slinging prowess, like the little girl in Kick Ass.
    — Armond White, National Review, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Spacek has the showier role as the seething, vengeful Ruth, a lobster fisherman’s Lady Macbeth.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Nine months later, Twitter—now run by a vengeful Musk—is suing Wachtell.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 7 July 2023
  • Finally, the zaniest of the lot, Bowser Highlands, is made up of the vengeful dragon’s fiery traps and lakes.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 29 June 2021
  • The kiss of her true love is the only thing that will break an evil spell placed upon Princess Aurora by the vengeful Maleficent.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 27 July 2022
  • Prince Amleth is the hunky, heroically vengeful killing machine with a heart that Skarsgård was born to play.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The vengeful and murderous outlaw Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels) is hot on his heels, killing anyone who gets in his way.
    — Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 June 2022
  • Just know, losers: Many not only prove quite raunchy; some tout unprintable vengeful wit.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Sure, there are rough patches ( a bit about a vengeful chef overstays its welcome), but most of that can be forgiven.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
  • And sadly, even we Olga Kurylenko stans have to admit that her turn as a vengeful Bolivian agent is far from her best work.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago, Drago’s vengeful son, and so on.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Losses feel like moral judgments and haunt like vengeful regret.
    — Cory Leadbeater, The Atlantic, 1 July 2024

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