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Sentence Examples Conan eventually grows up and goes on a killing spree to avenge his parents' death. If you wish to avenge a wrongdoing you simply pay the local shaman or witch doctor to invoke the spirits on your behalf. There was a time in the 80's when it looked as if the clans were gathering again to avenge Glencoe, so ubiquitous was the tartan kilt. Why should US Marines die to avenge them, when soldiers who were killed in similiar ways were left unavenged? Furious for being dumped as the face of the company for a younger prettier image, she begins to jealously avenge her husband's decision. His sense of nobility moves him to desire to engage in a monomachy with Miraz to avenge his father. Just like Germany and Italy in the inter-war period, China feels betrayed and humiliated, and seeks to avenge historic wounds. In other words, they want to avenge history, to undo the shame of half a millennium ago with a reassertion of their glory today. Anyway, her death will be avenged by a son of Clytaemnestra, who shall one day avenge his dead father. In the night Theo is visited by her ghost, who says she was murdered, and he must avenge her and then join her. An angry and vengeful young teenager wanted the power to avenge a father murdered by Orcs. They dove in, eager to avenge their fallen comrades, fellow subjects, and most of all, brothers. The spirit begs Hamlet to avenge the foul murder, but to leave Queen Gertrude unharmed. Waterloo will be looking to avenge an early season loss to the Golden Hawks. In the hall Godwin had told Gyric that on the morrow he would pledge to avenge the harm done to his brother. Her brothers sought an opportunity to avenge the wrong that causes men like Ulick to laugh and jest, and women to hide their faces and die. He promised to avenge the terrible wrongs done to them, and they responded enthusiastically. Having loaned three players to Morley and despite making a very bright start, Otley failed to avenge an early season defeat. Orestes returned to Argos later and murdered her to avenge Agamemnon's death. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing. Show More Sentences He brings with him their Queen Tamora and her three sons, the eldest of whom, Alarbus, is sacrificed to avenge his own sons' deaths. The priest, the religioner, the father of a family, every one has wrongs to avenge. Because he was the one who openly declared after taking power that he would sort India out and avenge Kargil. No stupid ghost stories were going to reduce her to sniveling in the dark, not when she had a missing daughter to find or avenge. Determined to avenge her, Marv pursues a violent, murderous course that takes him to the heart of the city's power structure, and seals his fate. He also expresses hope that Odysseus will return home and avenge himself. So I think that was personally felt too, my personal desire to avenge my own laziness and mistakes in life. Marius is a Roman soldier whose father is killed and he goes to avenge the death. Now, 13 years later, Stan's little brother Matthew is back to avenge his death. Revealing that Claudius murdered King Hamlet by pouring poison in his ear, the wandering spirit begs young Hamlet to avenge his father's foul murder. Hamlet is able to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle. The retainers, led by Chamberlain Oishi, resolve to avenge their lord's death and restore honor to his house, biding their time until the opportunity presents itself. But that means he will have to outmaneuver a president determined to avenge the shellacking that handed Boehner the gavel. Eager to avenge last month's defeat, his superior teamwork paid dividends. Nottingham gave their confidence a real boost with last week's win at Doncaster, who in turn will come to us keen to avenge a hefty home defeat at the start of the season. There would be something deeply wrong with the USA if it did not want to avenge itself for the worst terrorist attacks it has suffered in history. It is therefore natural for them to avenge themselves on city dwellers. Within days of the attack the Jiddi fleet had been scrambled and was off to Earth, to help the Terrans and to avenge the death of half a million youth. After a series of twists and turns, Orestes makes himself known to Electra and they avenge their father's murder by committing an act of matricide. The Chorus replies that it is their duty to avenge crimes of matricide. Show More Sentences Even if of goodwill towards the others, they felt conflicting obligations, were bound by tradition to avenge insults and to assist others of their group. Towns were regarded as tribes, therefore when someone from Najaf killed a tribesman, the tribe would avenge the murdered by murdering another Najafi. The battle was to avenge the death of Kevau Dagora's father, who died in a massacre by the Lakwaharn at Taurama, the ancestral village of the Western Motu. Both teams were also able to avenge their defeats from the previous day, meaning that the Warriors defeated each team in the bonspiel at some point. He bullheadedly attempts to avenge while Duncan seeks out an old friend. In the ancient Hebraic context, it was considered the duty of the individual and family to avenge evil on behalf of God. Werner Eck claims that this was a great disappointment for Romans seeking to avenge Crassus' defeat by military means. That night on the rampart, the ghost appears to Hamlet, telling the prince that he was murdered by Claudius and demanding that Hamlet avenge him. In the game, players must fight to avenge the death of their fallen master in a classic Wuxia storyline. He began minting coins with his father's deified image, proclaiming his desire to avenge Maximian's death. Daiwa Scarlet, trained by Kunihide Matsuda, won by a length and a half to avenge her defeat by Vodka in the Tulip Sho last month. The Zimbabwean government and its supporters attest that it was Western policies to avenge the expulsion of their kin that sabotaged the economy. The Kings were out to avenge one of their two shutouts out of the season, suffered in Columbus on Oct. Hamlet's conundrum, then, is whether to avenge his father and kill Claudius, or to leave the vengeance to God, as his religion requires. De Ojeda and the men of the other expedition returned to Turbaco and killed all of its inhabitants to avenge de la Cosa's death. The Mongols then resumed attacks on the Tatars to avenge the death of their late khan, opening a long period of active hostilities. Subsequently, around 30,000 Gothic soldiers defected to Alaric, and joined his march on Rome to avenge their murdered families. Will he manage to unweave the conspiracy surrounding him and avenge the death of the woman he loves? Upon Cabral's return, King Manuel I began planning another fleet to make the journey to India and to avenge the Portuguese losses in Calicut. The citizens of Ithaca have followed Odysseus on the road, planning to avenge the killing of the Suitors, their sons. Show More Sentences Militarily, he wanted to conquer the Dacians and Parthians, and avenge the loss at Carrhae. They vowed to avenge their father by capturing and punishing his killer. Then Cassivellaunus quarrels with one of his dukes, Androgeus, who sends a letter to Caesar asking him to help avenge the duke's honour. Cassius Dio presents this as Plautius needing the emperor's assistance to defeat the resurgent British, who were determined to avenge Togodumnus. When Kente Cromwell is murdered, he is given demonic powers and escapes purgatory to go back to earth and avenge his death as The Hangman. After four years on the sidelines, Austria sought another war with France to avenge its recent defeats. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name? Germanicus' campaign had been taken to avenge the Teutoburg slaughter and also partially in reaction to indications of mutinous intent amongst his troops. He was in his youth and desired to avenge the slaughter of Agelmund. He continued the rebellion, particularly wanting to avenge his wife. The president of Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan, Massud Barzani, promised Aug 2 to avenge the Yazidi minority brutally attacked by ISIS a year ago. Dominick Cruz is the newlycrowned bantamweight champ-ion and will get the chance to avenge the one and only defeat of his career against the golden boy of MMA Urijah Faber. Froch is looking to avenge his defeat to Denmark's Kessler when the two meet at the O2 Arena on May 25 in a blockbusting bout for the WBA and IBF supermiddleweight belts. Captain James Dacres of the Guerriere began a cycle of frigate duels by challenging the USS President to a single ship duel to avenge the losses aboard the Little Belt. In The Red Terror, a Baltic German is able to avenge her family's deaths, but commits suicide after, unable to live with meaning in the Soviet Union. Examples from Classical Literature All the princes of Achaea competed for her hand, having first taken an oath to avenge whomsoever she might choose for her husband. But Aegisthus was still uneasy at the thought that the Prince Orestes might return some day to avenge his father. She took no part in the first struggle of Apsu and Mummu against the gods, and only engaged in active hostilities to avenge Apsu. Arachne, humiliated by the blow, and unable to avenge it, hanged herself in despair. Then what could God do to avenge His honour and to have satisfaction rendered to Him? She thought that she had to avenge her husband, and had fixed the bayonet to her rifle. It was impossible that Diocletian should submit to the affront put upon him without an earnest effort to avenge it. Giant Suttung, son of that gilling whom they had just slain, was coming upon them in great fury to avenge his father's death. Gudrun stirred up her sons, Sorli and Hamther, to go and avenge their sister. He did his best to avenge his juniority as time passed on by an enormous length of limb. From that moment he possessed authority to manumit not less absolute than the sovereign, but immeasurably more power to avenge. The Russian army is advancing against you to avenge the Austrian army of Ulm. Was the desire to avenge her modesty goaded by some other unacknowledged desire? He would avenge me, it is true, but it is not to him that I shall look for vengeance. And the Sheriff laughed aloud in glee, and thought of how he should avenge his stolen plate, and determined to make a good day's work of it. I felt that the pale young gentleman's blood was on my head, and that the Law would avenge it. Then we bounded from the ground, for our hearts were fierce with hate and with longing to avenge the terrors we had borne. And you doubtless wish to avenge her death by finding Miss Denham? I give it you if you really wished to avenge the weak and oppressed against the oppressor. The Thebans, with others of the cities, undertook to maintain the authority of the Amphictyons, and to avenge the violated god. Show More Sentences He had to punish the perjurer, to avenge the wrongs of the saints. I did it to avenge the death of NYA upon you all, as she bade me to do. Rushed out after the retreating enemy to avenge his team-mate, I guess. This is the mother Tiamat, who burns to avenge the deaths of her kindred. She's the girl who vows to avenge the death of her father, Agamemnon, at the hands of his wife, Queen Klytemnestra, and her lover Aegisthus. For the present let them bring me something to eat, for that, I feel, is what will be more to my purpose, and leave it to me to avenge myself. They knew that these were intended to avenge the defeat of marathon. To defend and avenge each other, is the deep feeling of all. But they were too late to avenge, as they had been too late to save. Two I had disarmed, and one was down, when several more rushed to the aid of their new ruler, and to avenge the death of the old. Zaragoza, moved by the news, decided to avenge the wrongs of the people. In the second, He assures us that God longs to avenge His elect speedily. As I looked at him I knew that he would live to avenge poor Blum. Achilles makes this statement to Hector after mortally wounding him to avenge his friend, Patroclus, whom Hector had killed while Patroclus wore Achilles's armor. He returns to avenge upon the Orders of the Temple and the Hospital, the preference which they showed to Philip of France during the wars in the Holy Land. Lady Arabella, be she woman or snake or devil, owned the ground she moved in, according to British law, and the law is jealous and swift to avenge wrongs done within its ken. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of avenge? Words that rhyme with avenge What is the past tense of avenge? What is the plural of avenge? What is the adverb for avenge? What is the adjective for avenge? What is the noun for avenge? Translations for avenge Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Avena Avellaneda avec Ave. ave avaunt avengeance avenged avenger avengers avenges avenging 6-letter Words Starting With a av ave aven aveng