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How to use the word revenge in a Sentence? Page #3

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I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

Vincent Price

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

There is a whole lot of downside risk. That's the lessons of 1973 and 1974 and 1975 -- these things evolve a life of their own and your conduct really is like anger and revenge -- served hot they are very dangerous, served cold they are different.

Andrew Hall

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Sometimes silence is the best revenge. Mystery and guesswork kills!

Ashima

added by ashima
7 years ago

I am 100 percent innocent, i had nothing to do with these crimes. The prosecutions were not about truth. They were about hate, racism and revenge.

Michael Darnell Harris

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A provisional translation by an interpreter shows that he expressly announces, in the name of Allah, and testifying his allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a famous Islamist leader, an act of revenge against the Germans because they're getting in the way of Islam.

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There is a possibility of a backlash, they are not terrorists if they do not take revenge.

Rudy Sufahriadi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We have to accept the decision that was made, and not go looking for revenge.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It’s less about revenge and more about specific deterrence, i saw Gawker pioneer a unique and incredibly damaging way of getting attention by bullying people even when there was no connection with the public interest.

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It is not fair to conclude with so much ease that accords reached without your presence constitute a betrayal of the country, nor should you continue to stoke rancor and revenge in the minds of a large portion of Colombians.

Rodrigo Londono

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For the families, it was always about responsibility. It was not about revenge.

Shannon Fay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The organization has its own presence, some individuals who support Gaddafi joined to take revenge. But we can't say it's an organization based on Gaddafi's followers.

Abdulraouf Kara

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Since we were young, we were raised that there should be love and tolerance, i will not seek revenge. What would I gain from revenge? It will come back to hurt me.

Reem Paulis Saada

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Somebody has concluded that Serbs need to be held responsible for everything that happened, that's why it (the verdict) has no element of justice, but of revenge.

Milorad Dodik

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Erdogan is personally angry with us, especially me and a few other friends. He is...driven by feelings of revenge.

Selahattin Demirtas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Their children are potential drug traffickers as they would want to seek revenge and provide money for their families. There is no support for these people. we believe that if we do not support these people, they will be prone to crime, that’s why the society is responsible for the families of those executed.

Shahindokht Molaverdi

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I asked him why did he want to learn. He told me that he wanted to take revenge from those (who) had killed his father.

Mullah Samad

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We were wrongly arrested for 14 years without any charge against us but we are not looking for revenge. We want to live in Ghana quietly and peacefully and we want to put our life together.

Bin Atef

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The killing by the Saudis of a Shia cleric is a great shame to Shias around the world, it is now, their responsibility to seek revenge for his blood, as he is a part of the Um ma, or the extended family.

Shaul Gabbay

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's a distinct possibility that there are further episodes of these 'revenge politics' ahead.

Wolfango Piccoli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.

Yitzhak Rabin

added by anonymous
8 years ago

More than a sense of injustice or desire for revenge, I am driven by a profound feeling of staunch defiance, i am more determined than ever to defend myself before the relevant judicial bodies.

Michel Platini

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We need to have an orderly transition, a managed transition, so that you don't have a fear for retribution, loss of life, revenge.

State John Kerry on Tuesday

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It seems a revenge-like campaign is being carried out against the PPP.

Javed Akbar Riaz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They bombed our area in revenge for Kobani.

Mam Bashir

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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