Example Sentences

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Trailing fingers are terminals which ignite living flames, and the propeller of the little boat creates an avengeful commotion of light which trails far astern.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

On his death, his avengeful queen cast the mother and her daughter into the river which still bears that daughter’s name, Sabrina, or the Severn, and was not forgotten by Drayton.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

She had become hard and impersonal, almost avengeful on herself as well as on them, since the stone throwing.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Sometimes there is in his voice a quivering tone of lament, as of one drooping under a weight of sorrow, and I admire him for suppressing an avengeful anger.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold