VINDICTIVE in a Sentence

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35 example sentences for VINDICTIVE, such as:

1. The firing dwindled from an uproar to a last vindictive popping.
2. His face quivered and immediately assumed a vindictive expression.
3. Bogdanich is vindictive and you'll pay for your obstinacy, said Kirsten.
4. A very deep, malicious, vindictive person is the gentleman who is now waiting us downstairs.
5. Regardless of the vindictive threats of the bullets, he went about coaxing, berating, and bedamning.

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 Meanings and Examples of VINDICTIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vindictive
 a.  seek revenge or intended for revenge; showing malicious will
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
2  In short, everything wore rather the appearance of a day of pleasure, than of an hour stolen from the dangers and toil of a bloody and vindictive warfare.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
3  Fortunately, the vindictive Magua was searching for his victim in the very band the veteran had just quitted.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
4  It will easily be understood that, amid such a concourse of vindictive enemies, no breathing time was allowed the fugitive.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
5  Marble could not be colder, calmer, or steadier than the countenance he put upon this sudden and vindictive attack.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
6  The firing dwindled from an uproar to a last vindictive popping.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  Regardless of the vindictive threats of the bullets, he went about coaxing, berating, and bedamning.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  Many a man, however vindictive, would have abandoned all thought of revenge in the face of such a difficulty, but Jefferson Hope never faltered for a moment.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
9  "My mother is not vindictive," said Clym, his colour faintly rising.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
10  It is inconceivable that this fellow could have made two such vindictive enemies as these appear to be without knowing of it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
11  A very deep, malicious, vindictive person is the gentleman who is now waiting us downstairs.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
12  His dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
13  Bogdanich is vindictive and you'll pay for your obstinacy, said Kirsten.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
14  His face quivered and immediately assumed a vindictive expression.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
15  And giving her no further reply, he began thinking of the glad vindictive moment when he would meet Kuragin who he knew was now in the army.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  Her neck and arms were full of scars from a vindictive rage by her husband's relatives, who believed her guilty of his death.
2  It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.