Example Sentences

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Richard was born disabled; Hamlet was avenging a murder.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

Cameron rejects the idea that someone was avenging the director's high-handed behavior.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was avenging Dennis for what he had undergone from the narrative of his madness.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

Chance was avenging him now on the unapproachable one, who would not suffer his assistance even in the disengaging of her veil from a thorn bush.

From The Sign of Flame by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

He was shot in a theater in Washington, by a fanatic named Booth, who imagined that he was avenging wrongs of the South.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park