repent
Example Sentences
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“I can’t repent … I was sincere, I don’t know how to repent.”
From Literature
For me, the ash cross symbolizes how to repent—at the cross.
In several cases, countries that arrived at trade deals with the U.S. later repented because their deals were too one-sided, he said.
Among the foreign women held in the camps, many have repented and asked to go home, she said.
From Barron's
Grinch boosters point out that the villain repents and reforms at the end of the story, shedding his pathological hatred of Christmas.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
