ask pardon

Example Sentences

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Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2013

I was a little cross," he wrote one of his generals, "I ask pardon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tell my wife I love her dearly and ask pardon for all I have done.

From Time Magazine Archive

On their way back from the Heart of Darkness, they stopped at the temple to ask pardon of their gods.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Then he stops by the Ayemenem Temple, he and the others with him, and they dance to ask pardon of the gods.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy