Example Sentences

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“By most mechanical hand, I shall have such revenges on you,” Peter warns early on, gloriously emanating beams of loathing at the always mildly amused Ford.

From Time • Dec. 7, 2016

He is an enigmatic born leader, a delicate object of myriad desires and revenges, a picker of flowers and performer of mime.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2016

The whirligig of time, Grandage implies, brings in its revenges.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2012

Yet the whirligig of time brings in its revenges.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2011

Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black