REPENTANCE in a Sentence
Learn REPENTANCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
96 example sentences for REPENTANCE, such as:
1. He has done wrong but repented.
2. Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
3. From short pleasure long repentance.
4. Depend on others and you always repent.
5. Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent.
2. Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
3. From short pleasure long repentance.
4. Depend on others and you always repent.
5. Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Meanings and Examples of REPENTANCE
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
repentance
n. remorse for your past conduct
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1 Somewhat too late she remembered that she had given up domesticity and repentance.
2 Her repentance was not proof against Uncle Whittier when she stopped in at his grocery for salt and a package of safety matches.
3 As sinful men, it is a lesson to us all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.
4 And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
5 Shipmates, I do not place Jonah before you to be copied for his sin but I do place him before you as a model for repentance.
6 At eleven the meeting closed, and the desolate audience filed out into the snow, muttering curses upon the few traitors who had got repentance and gone up on the platform.
7 Uncas permitted his eyes to turn for an instant on the sturdy countenance of the speaker, but he neither spoke nor gave any indication of repentance.
8 The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.
9 Your repentance," I said, "is now superfluous.
10 It was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and in the first flow of my repentance, it was equally clear that I must stay at Joe's.
11 It has been put into your hearts, perhaps, to save a wretched creature for repentance.
12 It was a characteristic feature in this repentance, that I was fain to ask what these two men had done, to be there at all.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
13 Atone, by repentance and better conduct, for the shocking action you have committed, and the dreadful consequences to which it has led.
14 In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of.
15 Yet this demure affectation of extreme penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce his fear and repentance alike hypocritical.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
2 Confession is the first step to repentance.
3 From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance.
4 From short pleasure long repentance.
5 They refused to show repentance for their crimes.
6 We finally forgave him when he expressed his repentance with tears.
7 Depend on others and you always repent.
8 Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
9 A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.
10 Marry too soon, and you'll repent too late.
11 If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die.
12 Some persons do first, think afterwards, and then repent for ever.
13 Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent.
14 Many a truism is summed up in a proverb; for example, "Marry in haste, repent at leisure.".
15 He has done wrong but repented.