RETRIBUTION in a Sentence
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19 example sentences for RETRIBUTION, such as:
1. They fled because they feared retribution for the genocide.
2. His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.
3. The victim did not report the incident for fear of retribution.
4. The lessons of yesterday had been that retribution was a laggard and blind.
5. A robber whom a jury sentences to 10 years in retribution said something misled them.
2. His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.
3. The victim did not report the incident for fear of retribution.
4. The lessons of yesterday had been that retribution was a laggard and blind.
5. A robber whom a jury sentences to 10 years in retribution said something misled them.
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Meanings and Examples of RETRIBUTION
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retribution
n. something justly deserved; recompense; compensation; punishment for offenses
Classic Sentence:
1 The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.
2 They embarked; and so for ever got the start of their former captain, had he been at all minded to work them legal retribution.
3 The lessons of yesterday had been that retribution was a laggard and blind.
4 Excess had brought on that frightful disease that seems to throw the lurid shadows of a coming retribution back into the present life.
5 I cannot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have endured misery which nothing but the eternal sentiment of a just retribution burning within my heart could have enabled me to support.
6 His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.
7 Nor have I so read or interpreted Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and deeds, then to be made, is intended as a part of the retribution.
8 As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
9 There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
10 They did not know which was more shocking--the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed.
11 The retribution that followed every vengeful success was so sweeping and majestic that the boys always retired from the field badly worsted.
12 Benedetto, if still living, will become the instrument of divine retribution in some way or other, and then be duly punished in his turn.
13 Secondly, It must be without retribution, or punishment; and the reason he gives is, because an inferior cannot punish a superior.
14 There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.
Example Sentence:
1 They fled because they feared retribution for the genocide.
2 The victim did not report the incident for fear of retribution.
3 She was asked whether a civilian government should seek retribution against military officers involved in human rights abuses.
4 I'm a sincere believer that people who have engaged in heinous crimes deserve the ultimate retribution.
5 A robber whom a jury sentences to 10 years in retribution said something misled them.