How to Use repentance in a Sentence

repentance

noun

• Rosh Hashana marks the first day of the 10 days of repentance.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 19 Sep. 2017
• It is used as a call to repentance during the High Holy Days.
  — CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
• The idea was to avoid self-indulgence at this time of repentance for one’s sins.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 22 Feb. 2021
• The blowing of the horn is used as a call to repentance during the holiday.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
• After a day of repentance, sins are forgiven and the slate is wiped clean for the year ahead.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
• The man told the boy that his hand was a gift of repentance to God before serenely slicing it away.
  — Lori Hinnant and and Maggie Michael, idahostatesman, 10 Dec. 2017
• On the Jewish day of repentance, Heard on the Street's mind was fixed on transgressions that took place two and a half decades ago.
  — WSJ, 26 Sep. 2023
• Lent's dates might change from year to year, but its purpose remains the same as a time of repentance and fasting.
  — Laura Kostelny, Country Living, 21 Feb. 2023
• Xie pleaded guilty and asked the court to grant him a lenient sentence based on his repentance.
  — Washington Post, 8 May 2017
• The High Holy Days are a time of prayer, reflection, repentance and atonement.
  — al, 28 Sep. 2020
• Lent is underway with its blend of repentance (for the faithful) and cheap fried fish plates.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2022
• On this Jewish day of repentance, Heard on the Street's mind was fixed on transgressions that took place two and a half decades ago.
  — WSJ, 25 Sep. 2023
• The notion that this is the final fling before the repentance begins.
  — Time, 30 Dec. 2022
• Compare this with the first of the Gospels, that of Mark, in which Jesus repeatedly cries out for repentance.
  — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
• But the question lingers whether that repentance was genuine.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
• The Eucharist is meant to help heal sinners, but that requires repentance.
  — Ryan T. Anderson, WSJ, 1 July 2021
• There are all of his beautiful last poems of repentance to Prue.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2019
• My hope and belief is that this war will bring repentance and forgiveness.
  — Stella Kalinina, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
• Shrove is the past tense of shrive, which means to gain absolution of sins by confession and repentance.
  — al, 1 Mar. 2022
• Looming above all, of course, was the boundless shame of the Third Reich, which left many Germans intent on moral repentance.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2022
• Deathbed repentances are never supposed to work in art.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2019
• Roof’s lack of repentance and the willingness to forgive Roof shown by some of the survivors and relatives of people killed that day.
  — Angela Harrelson, ELLE, 12 Feb. 2022
• The shofar is also sounded at the end of the much more solemn Yom Kippur, the holiday of repentance, 10 days after Rosh Hashanah.
  — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• The most important step should be in terms of an apology or repentance to the person or people who’ve been harmed.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
• Do what Jesus said: show fruit worthy of your repentance.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 16 Aug. 2017
• The ashes are meant to symbolize both death and repentance in order to begin Lent in a solemn, humble way.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 17 Feb. 2023
• The New Year inaugurates 10 days of repentance, also known as Days of Awe.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 18 Sep. 2020
• That visit genuinely happened (the devout Chisholm believed in forgiveness…and repentance), but Ridley hits a wrong note by staging the encounter as if the two were old college chums.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
• The significance of Ash Wednesday lies in its association with repentance, reflection and preparation for the Easter season.
  — Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024