penance

How to use penance in a sentence

To the world, I was fat and unfit and had to go to the gym as penance.

Those who have somehow broken the laws of this country remain in some of them and this is their abode of penance.

Your penance will be having to listen to your friend’s explanation, even if it unintentionally seems to confirm her guilt.

I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good, there is none that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done?

It seemed to him as if no punishment or penance could atone for such deception and for so great a crime.

SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND

Many a fish is mad after the bait; but when he is hooked, he finds his penance, even though the line should break.

The Church adjudged Simone heretic, and condemned her for salutary penance to the bread of suffering and the water of affliction.

And you look as if you were doing penance, or something—you've got such a superior expression!

I look for no penance in this life, Reverend Mother, beyond such as may be imposed upon me.

Alas, it may be, she will impose on herself some rigid penance, in the hope that God may alleviate the sufferings of her brother!

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985