comeuppance

How To Use comeuppance In A Sentence

• Rather than booing, fans recall it was more a wall of silence that greeted his efforts, but they would get their comeuppance soon enough.
• Some were probably hoping the students would get their comeuppance, but death was more than they deserved.
• Because the stories were true, the comeuppance of criminals (death for all but a few) rang even truer.
• They will enjoy the sight of a cheat getting his comeuppance. Times, Sunday Times
• She starts off, by design, as an unsympathetic character (hence the titled comeuppance), who, like any newcomer in a Hollywood flick, not only learns to cope well enough (despite the natives) to stay in Japan and grow, but also to recommend to everyone (in a self-important interview in the back of the book) to try living overseas (I agree, of course, but one year abroad hardly makes one an authority on world travel). Debito.org
• The idea that liberals never understood this until Bush v. Gore, and that now, finally, they are getting their righteous comeuppance, is bizzare. Balkinization
• You think there will be moral comeuppance but it just gets darker and darker. Times, Sunday Times
• I love hissing the villainess as she works her evil wiles and cheering when she gets her eventual comeuppance.
• But Jimmy Grimble smells like a sweet and innocuous film from the get-go, thus we know someone's going to get their comeuppance, and it isn't dear little Jimmy.
• Thus far, it is only in the executive suite and in the stock market that society has witnessed a comeuppance.