How to Use atone in a Sentence

atone

verb

• Some may see this as the chance to atone for that mistake.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2021
• If there’s rot at the heart of things, how can Greta atone?
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Each one of them, Josh knew, was trying to atone for a wrong.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2021
• In a tie game, and the power play 0 for 3 to that point, DeBrusk atoned.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2019
• But the display of piety has done little to mask that the army chief has much to atone for.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
• Brees atoned with a pin-point strike to Ginn for a 36-yard TD in the third quarter that put the game away.
  — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 5 Nov. 2017
• McGirt played in the morning and made a pair of eagles on the back nine to atone in his round of 67.
  — Doug Ferguson, courant.com, 11 May 2017
• Mane then did get his goal in the 77th minute and atoned for his earlier miss.
  — SI.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• McGirt played in morning and made a pair of eagles on the back nine to atone in his round of 67.
  — Doug Ferguson, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
• London’s hideous Walkie Talkie tries to atone for its sins with the Sky Garden.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 14 June 2018
• That very night, Enkidu has a dream that, to atone for the crime of murdering the Bull of Heaven, one of the two men must die.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• How does a city atone for killing as many as 300 of its Black citizens?
  — Maria C. Hunt, House Beautiful, 1 June 2021
• None may atone for my actions but me and only in me shall their stain live on.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
• Simply paying more from one year to the next does not atone for the grave offense at hand.
  — Adam Parness, Billboard, 22 May 2024
• Moses destroyed the tablets in anger, but the people atoned for their sin, so God forgave them.
  — Sofia Barrett, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
• The Eagles are on a mission to atone for missing a state berth by one place last year.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
• Putting the rotation on his shoulders in the second half would do a lot to atone for that.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022
• Hopefully for the Browns, Wilson will soon have a chance to atone for the mistake.
  — cleveland, 19 Aug. 2020
• There have been some moves to atone for the bitter history.
  — Yuri Kageyama, Star Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
• To atone for that addition, perhaps, the owners kept the ratty red vinyl on the stools at the counter.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• Is there any way to atone for one’s mistakes, no matter how grave?
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• To Garrett, the extension was a way to give back more and atone for his mistake.
  — cleveland, 9 Sep. 2020
• A birdie on the final hole still kept him right in the mix to atone for a playoff loss at Kapalua two years ago.
  — Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 6 Jan. 2017
• Germany’s efforts to atone for the Holocaust are well known.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2021
• Now Google is offering its smarts and a small (to Google) chunk of change to begin to atone for its sins.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2018
• So those who want to improve their standing must atone.
  — al, 30 Sep. 2019
• The show would be their effort to atone, perhaps, and, of course, their effort to make a comeback of some sort.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
• Big in the middle: Schoop’s later at-bats atoned for some of the early miscues, though.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 15 June 2017
• Biden has the chance to atone for the sins of his forebears and build up some serious street cred on climate.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2021
• Pak atones for a three-putt bogey on the 18th hole in regulation that set up the playoff.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024