Sentence examples for a penance from inspiring English sources

That's a penance.

"It's a penance," he said.

This is a penance, in reverse.

Miyassar said Britain would take years to pay a penance.

One might even see it as a penance as well.

Perhaps his books were a penance for this accident.

Enough of this – it isn't a marriage, it's a penance and we haven't committed the sins.

(Bad outdoor art can make a penance of our daily walks, but that is another matter).

It was like a penance for all those years of not reading it.

If that sounds like a penance, think again: this is an exhilarating pleasure.

It was almost like a penance for a boyhood interest that had lasted so long.