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How to use the word avenge in a Sentence?

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What's driving me is a sense of wanting to avenge the death of my brother and his wife.

– Bruce Harrington

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths.

– Marie Antoinette

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

ShipYourEnemiesGlitter is all about one-time revenge, bad Neighbour Notes is all about the ability to avenge yourself over and over again for all of the annoying things your neighbour does to you.

– Sean Mayers

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I lost a lot of friends in this war and I resist to avenge their death, no matter the destruction in Kobani, it can be built again -- the important thing is to destroy this strange enemy that entered our land.

– Meedya Raqqa

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I lost my best friend eight months ago. She killed herself to save her friends and the injured around her, these are the difficult moments that we live, but I told you we gain strength from these martyrs. They are difficult moments that make you do more to avenge their death to make her dreams come true. The road she began, you finish.

– Meedya Raqqa

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

– Karl Kraus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

– Edmund Burke

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

– Lucan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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