How to Use avenge in a Sentence

avenge

verb
  • The brothers vowed to avenge the death of their father.
  • They vowed to avenge their father by capturing and punishing his killer.
  • The Cougars are bound to want to avenge their loss from two years ago.
    — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Jamie wants the oldest boy to join them to avenge his mother.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The team will be looking to avenge that ending.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Humans would join forces and clobber it just to avenge our species.
    — WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Maryland should be able to avenge that loss this week, but this is still a sneaky matchup.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Khamenei also vowed to avenge the deaths of those killed in the Iran war.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The ghost of the man your friend poisoned appears in your dreams and asks you to avenge his death.
    — Jiji Lee, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Wei Yingluo enters the palace as a maid to avenge her sister’s death.
    — L Tong, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The Chargers don’t have to wait long for their chance to avenge that defeat.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Day is looking forward to avenging last year's loss.
    — Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The Dash knows that the Pride will be hungry to avenge its loss from last time.
    — Parth Upadhyaya, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
  • Patrick Mahomes will be healthy enough and the Chiefs will avenge last year’s loss.
    — Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2023
  • In the film, a man goes on Christmas Eve killing spree to avenge his son’s death.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The other team avenged a tough loss, beating a team that can be counted among the best in the world.
    — Shane Lantz, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2018
  • Overcome with rage, Booth chooses to avenge his art over the South.
    — Harris Mayersohn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2019
  • But there is something to avenge in Sunday’s matchup with the Colts.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The Raiders have the chance to avenge their only loss of the season in the title game.
    — oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, pledged to avenge the attacks.
    — Christina Wilkie,anniek Bao,riya Bhattacharjee, CNBC, 13 June 2025
  • This Suns team is supposed to avenge all the heartbreak of the last 55 years.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Eleven chose to go back to her family instead of staying with her to avenge her mother.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The loser will have a chance to avenge that, because both teams, no doubt, are headed to the Open.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • And just when listeners are ready to ride at dawn to avenge that boy, the final three songs offer reprieve.
    — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For now, Suns have chance to avenge going 0-2 against the Nets last season.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
  • For Logan, avenging its loss to the Danville school was the only thing on the team’s mind.
    — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
  • The win gave the South seven wins in the past eight years and avenged last year’s North victory.
    — Katherine Dunn, baltimoresun.com, 1 July 2018
  • He is driven to avenge the killing by two Dachau guards of his close friend Max Klinghoffer.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
  • But Heat fans clearly weren’t foaming at the mouth to avenge their 31-41 squad.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025

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