How to Use penitent in a Sentence

penitent

1 of 2 adjective

• But with Cash on the vocals, the song and the man singing are nearly penitent.
  — Stephanie Kaloi, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• There’s been nothing penitent or muted about Cousins this year.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 30 Jan. 2018
• Confidential relationships between a priest and a penitent, and a doctor and a patient, and a lawyer and a client.
  — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
• Ito was penitent in a meeting this week meant to air grievances and begin to heal disagreements, according to a New York Times report.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• This rule applies, for example, to conversations between a lawyer and a client, between a priest and a penitent, and between a husband and wife.
  — NBC News, 19 Nov. 2019
• Weinstein’s own version tellingly vacillates in tone from the penitent to the petulant.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
• Darrell Larson portrays him, these many years later, as a penitent figure who might just have some heroism inside.
  — Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 15 June 2018
• If, for example, the penitent confesses from behind a screen, how can the confessor know for certain who is confessing?
  — Rob Taylor and, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• Facebook executives did a penitent tour through the halls of media and the Capitol, offering apologies and begging for the public’s forgiveness.
  — Jacob Silverman, Longreads, 2 May 2018
• Some former Shining Path fighters joined: los arrepentidos, the penitent ones.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• Stacked up one by one, the whole thing feels unrelenting, like a a permanent, penitent chorus, sung in harmony, museum to museum. .
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• The Rockets organization was similarly penitent, and rumors began to circulate that Morey, one of the league’s most talented executives, could lose his job.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2019
• As with McBride’s voice-over, which Pitt delivers in intimate tones — like a lover or penitent whispering confidences in your ear — the helmet alternately reveals and obscures the character, putting the narrative dynamic into visual terms.
  — New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• But with Cash on the vocals, the song and the man singing are nearly penitent.
  — Stephanie Kaloi, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• There’s been nothing penitent or muted about Cousins this year.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 30 Jan. 2018
• Confidential relationships between a priest and a penitent, and a doctor and a patient, and a lawyer and a client.
  — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
• Ito was penitent in a meeting this week meant to air grievances and begin to heal disagreements, according to a New York Times report.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• This rule applies, for example, to conversations between a lawyer and a client, between a priest and a penitent, and between a husband and wife.
  — NBC News, 19 Nov. 2019
• Weinstein’s own version tellingly vacillates in tone from the penitent to the petulant.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
• Darrell Larson portrays him, these many years later, as a penitent figure who might just have some heroism inside.
  — Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 15 June 2018
• If, for example, the penitent confesses from behind a screen, how can the confessor know for certain who is confessing?
  — Rob Taylor and, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• Facebook executives did a penitent tour through the halls of media and the Capitol, offering apologies and begging for the public’s forgiveness.
  — Jacob Silverman, Longreads, 2 May 2018
• Some former Shining Path fighters joined: los arrepentidos, the penitent ones.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• Stacked up one by one, the whole thing feels unrelenting, like a a permanent, penitent chorus, sung in harmony, museum to museum. .
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• The Rockets organization was similarly penitent, and rumors began to circulate that Morey, one of the league’s most talented executives, could lose his job.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2019
• As with McBride’s voice-over, which Pitt delivers in intimate tones — like a lover or penitent whispering confidences in your ear — the helmet alternately reveals and obscures the character, putting the narrative dynamic into visual terms.
  — New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019

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penitent

2 of 2 noun

• Some of the penitents had their backs inflicted with cuts to keep them bloody.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• Often the penitents wash up and hastily change back into plain clothes to be able to do it.
  — Text By Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• The costumer-confessor and actress-penitent were in a state of hope.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2021
• In other words, if Trump is penitent, Facebook could still give him back his passwords.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 May 2021
• This clergy-penitent privilege is on the books in 33 states, including Utah, the AP found.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
• The door to one bedroom is an antique three-door confessional — center door for the priest, two side doors for penitents.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2017
• That something similar holds for him suggests the one true-faith note of this novel: that there is no difference between judge and penitent.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
• During an interview with the AP before the new court records were filed, Nelson defended the church’s actions in the Adams case and the clergy-penitent privilege.
  — Michael Rezendes and Jason Dearen, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2022
• Today is Good Friday, which means those who’ve been practicing a penitent and meat-free Lenten diet are nearing the end of their observance.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
• Some of the penitents flagellated themselves while walking for hours, beseeching the Madonna to heal them or to cure their sick children.
  — Text By Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• In the circumstances, Benedict’s plea for forgiveness—penitent in mood but not in substance—models a way of doing things that should be left behind.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022
• None of them has challenged the clergy-penitent privilege.
  — Jason Dearen and Michael Rezendes, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
• In his verse—by turns, introspective, penitent, and hopeful—No Malice seems to express thoughts that Pusha never will.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
• Beneath the statue of St. Joseph, a handmade system of green and red light bulbs indicated whether the adjacent storage room was empty for the next penitent.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 12 Apr. 2020
• Prior to the cross nailings, dozens of male penitents walked several kilometers (miles) along village streets while beating their bare backs with sharp bamboo sticks and pieces of wood.
  — Time, 30 Mar. 2018
• Prior to the crucifixions, dozens of male penitents walked several kilometers (miles) through village streets, beating their bare backs with sharp bamboo sticks and pieces of wood.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• The crowd grows so dense — easily in the hundreds — that when we are finally admitted into the garden, the mass of humanity moves along the path like a slow procession of super stylish penitents.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 27 May 2018
• And, indeed, any romance that an uncareful reader might have brought to the story of penitent, suffering Jude is erased by what we’re literally shown.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
• Even if cats weren’t always as appreciated as other pets (the Romans had a penitent for lap dogs, for example), cats still conquered one famous piece of ancient Roman history.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2022
• Benenson, who was also Hillary Clinton’s pollster, on a campaign that failed to measure the intensity of the anti-establishment wave, paused for a minute, considering the image of Trump giving a penitent speech.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2020
• The operative subtext here is that Mary Magdalene has gotten a raw deal through the millennia — often depicted as a penitent prostitute follower of Jesus.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• Aside from the legal arguments over whether Bishops Herrod and Mauzy were excused from their reporting obligations under the clergy-penitent privilege, critics of the inaction by the two bishops and the broader church have raised ethical issues.
  — Michael Rezendes, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2022
• The last bit is driven home when, like a penitent in a confessional, Hero tells Roxanne her dark secret, effectively surrendering herself for the low, low price of some matriarchal absolution.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2021
• The seven days culminate with a Sunday procession, which includes hundreds of self-flagellating, hooded penitents.
  — Text By Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• As the exhibition unfolds, artists-penitent, shrinking from the perils of originality, dominate in Russia.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• Father Gigante refused to give straight answers, saying he was exempted by priest-penitent confidentiality.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2022
• His preoccupations therein are with dualities, dichotomies and doubles: philanderer-penitent, solitude-solipsism, prince-pauper, Clark Kent-Superman, to name just a few.
  — Kate Bolick, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
• Some of the penitents had their backs inflicted with cuts to keep them bloody.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• Often the penitents wash up and hastily change back into plain clothes to be able to do it.
  — Text By Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• The costumer-confessor and actress-penitent were in a state of hope.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2021

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