8 sentences with 'revenge'
Example sentences and phrases with the word revenge and other words derived from it.
• « Romulus and Remus were discovered by a she-wolf and suckled by her, eventually growing up and taking revenge on their treacherous uncle. »
• « Not surprisingly, the Carthaginians wanted revenge, not only for their loss in the war but for Rome's seizure of Corsica and Sardinia. »
• « In 201 BC, after the defeat of the Carthaginians, Rome sent an army against Philip to defend Greek independence and to take revenge. »
• « The royalists were not defeated until the summer, and after that defeat the revolutionary army inflicted a form of revenge on the region's population that verged on genocide. »
• « France lost two important eastern regions, Alsace and Lorraine, and had to pay a considerable war indemnity, which inspired an enormous amount of resentment among the French (and provoked a desire for revenge - revenge). »
• « Germany was surrounded by potential enemies in France and Russia. France had cultivated a desire for revenge against Germany since the Franco-Prussian War. »
• « That said, Coach Burkhead went back to work, describing different plays and throwing punches in the air as he explained how they could get revenge in the second half. Not a single one of the boys was distracted; none of them fooled around. »
• « In any case, nature takes its revenge and adds another problem: in the Curuá river, for example, the water has dropped from ten metres to just one. The result: it no longer rains as much in vast areas of the rainforest, as a result of logging. And the circuit of life is once again in danger. »