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How to use retribution in a sentence

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Two gunshots rang out like two clear bells in the night as the angel of retribution silently passed.
This is not retribution but pre-emption, finding appropriate force to prevent a further attack.
Far from inaugurating a new style of popular politics, they repeat ancient cycles of violence and retribution.
In effect, lynchers could go about their horrific deeds with the protection of the law and little fear of retribution.
Nothing will dry up the fund of information on errors as quickly as the fear of retribution.
He is visited by Pat, the black-market scally with retribution on his mind for the loss of the trawling father he never met.
Ezekiel runs into the Israelites ' expectation that God is, and always will be, a God of retribution.
In last week's column, I threatened retribution against Chris for his irritatingly successful April Fool's prank.
I can't say more for fear of broken fingers and retribution, but tonight wasn't our finest hour.
They ride a tiger, and the retribution against them, were they to be overthrown, would be frightful.
Many of the so called punishment beatings issued are more commonly found to be retribution for engaging in trade on another persons patch.
After the defeat of the regime two million Hutu refugees fled to neighbouring countries fearing retribution.
It is recorded in Jeremiah that everyone will be meted out retribution for his own sins.
Obstructionism from the military, the right, and the courts prevented a full accounting or retribution against the perpetrators.
Many of the girls who greeted Em warmly happened to date him at one time or another in their lives, and were spoiling for righteous retribution.
What heinous sin had these women committed to be singled out for divine retribution?
Given the shortness of political horizons, it would be advantageous to have the quickest possible retribution for bad behaviour.
And, if it thinks it faces a terrorist threat now, you can only imagine what kind of retribution would be exacted.
To some extent, therefore, retribution reflects society's desire for vengeance.
This was an incredibly bold stroke, and they could have been worried about retribution coming at any minute.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Remember that the neglect of justice brings with it the direst retribution.
From the man who caused the disfiguration of his visage he has exacted a terrible retribution.
Again, in that which gives artistic character to the reaction and the retribution the two nemeses differ.
The reckoning, the retribution, the retaliation to be just must be most stern.
Aurelian weighed the offence and decided on the just measures of retribution.
Each one understood the debasing retribution the keddah sahib had meted out to his foul-fighting opponent.
Vice should surfer its meed of retribution, and Virtue come again into its glorious own.
Then the truth came out, and, had I been only for a mild walk on the links, retribution would have overtaken my truantry.
But the day of retribution came, and the empire went the way of all tyrannies.
Ena seemed to look on it at first as a retribution, but Archie insists that there never was anything to retribute.
Had I done so, how poignant would be my remorse at the retribution of our own sufferings, and the pity of those I had so injured!
If then the retribution of the soul is corporeal, there is no need of resurrection.
But if it be not redressed, as I trust it will be, it will work out its own retribution.
Then they went in pursuit of some Indian, whom they killed in retribution for the Negrillo who had died.
Occasionally these frocked and sandalled ruffians met with deserved retribution at the hands of those whose homes they desolated.
There is retribution, but Falstaff is only pinched by the fairies.
The causal retribution is in the thing and is seen by the soul.
It is not for us men to apportion the shares of moral guilt and retribution.
The lessons of yesterday had been that retribution was a laggard and blind.
Azazel, brother to Armaros and bane of the ancients, has escaped his desert purgatory of 8,000 years and thirsts for retribution.
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