REPENTANCE in a Sentence

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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPENTANCE
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repentance
 n.  act of repenting, or state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  Somewhat too late she remembered that she had given up domesticity and repentance.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  Her repentance was not proof against Uncle Whittier when she stopped in at his grocery for salt and a package of safety matches.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
4  And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
8  The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  Your repentance," I said, "is now superfluous.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVIII
11  It has been put into your hearts, perhaps, to save a wretched creature for repentance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
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
13  Atone, by repentance and better conduct, for the shocking action you have committed, and the dreadful consequences to which it has led.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
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.