Use of penance in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include penance at the start of sentence, penance at the end of sentence and penance in the middle of sentence

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penance at the end of sentence


  1. She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.
  2. She had spoken of a reward, not a penance!
  3. Working in the garden was a kind of penance.
  4. I think you should serve my meal first as penance.
  5. They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
  6. Poverty for us is a freedom mortification, a penance.
  7. Members of the order led a life of prayer, fasting, and penance.
  8. The life of the anchoress was hard but she did not necessarily give herself over to excessive penance.
  9. He heard confessions of sins by his parishioners and gave absolution as he saw fit, enjoining a suitable penance.

penance in the middle of sentence


  1. We prayed and did penance together.
  2. They are doing penance for their sins.
  3. Shall be by him amerced with penance due.
  4. He decided to do public penance for his sins.
  5. Are you willing to do penance for your sins, my son?
  6. Just to look at it was to do penance for her failures.
  7. This device will say your penance for you automatically.
  8. When it was over, the penance would be unexpectedly light.
  9. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.
  10. As a penance, she said she would buy them all a box of chocolates.
  11. She regards living in New York as a penance; she hates big cities.
  12. She made him do the washing-up as penance for forgetting her birthday.
  13. In penance, Nynex has this month been forced to pay customers a rebate.
  14. He devoted his life to helping the poor as a penance for his past crimes.
  15. Edwin did public penance, appearing, for a change, in church the next day.
  16. He whose sperm flows while he is sleeping shall do penance for three days.
  17. His penance was to build an inn and hospital for the poor at the mouth of a river.
  18. As penance, Gandhi fasted three days and asked his followers to fast twenty-four hours.
  19. If found guilty, her head would be shaved and she would be required to do penance for life.
  20. He subsequently decided to do penance for the deed, and set off to his foundation at Agaune.

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