How to Use vendetta in a Sentence

vendetta

noun
  • He waged a personal vendetta against his rivals in the Senate.
  • For someone to come into our group, have this weird vendetta against me.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 1 Aug. 2024
  • This is a personal vendetta, at least that’s what this feels like.
    — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Though his garbage-sifting has waned, his vendetta is as strong as ever.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • And, for reasons that soon become clear, he's got a vendetta.
    — Ew Staff, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2022
  • And then, of course, there's Inaros' vendetta to contend with.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Rick is on his vendetta, and despite a nice evening with an old friend, his plans for vengeance haven’t changed.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The plot gets far more tangled than that and draws in past vendettas and secret legacies.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Vladimir Putin gets slammed for his personal vendetta against her.
    — Paul Jenkins, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Villarreal, who’s out on bail, said the police have a vendetta against her.
    — Jason Buch, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2017
  • That act dredges up old vendettas, buried secrets and cold ambitions.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Trump himself, who isn’t charged, has called the trial a baseless vendetta.
    — Greg Farrell, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The two are caught in their own personal vendettas, perhaps at the cost of their own people.
    — Tom Philip, GQ, 14 July 2017
  • But, will this be the thing that finally gets Ellie to drop her vendetta and go home?
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 May 2025
  • Each of the swans carries out their personal vendetta against Capote in their own way.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Kasich was also the least caught up in the debate’s many micro-vendettas.
    — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2016
  • This looks like a pure vendetta play, and potentially a costly one.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 1 Aug. 2025
  • So starts Hughie's vendetta, along with millions of people's love for the series.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
  • So why do two brothers from a neighboring parcel of land seem eager to launch a vendetta against him?
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 27 July 2023
  • The mayor has been very vocal about his personal vendetta against the rodents.
    — CNN, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Others have a vendetta — some sort of point to prove that Markle's every move is offensive.
    — Alanna Bennett, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Daybell claimed the charges stemmed from Boudreaux’s personal vendetta.
    — Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 11 June 2025
  • Still a bit amnesic about his past, Quinn said that he was puzzled by Reacher’s vendetta.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Beckham went into the game with a vendetta against the Cardinals.
    — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Huawei has accused FedEx of conducting a vendetta against it.
    — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
  • At the time, Flournoy described the attack as a personal vendetta.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The secretary of the state is not empowered to conduct vendettas.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 3 June 2018
  • Nature, just like the human working classes, has a righteous vendetta and the numbers to win a war.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • This vendetta especially applies to the team which swept the Nets out of the playoffs in the first round.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 July 2022
  • Zuritsky dismissed the notion that the writing staff might have some sort of vendetta against Steve.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2022

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