Sentence examples for an atonement from inspiring English sources
"We are seeking an apology, an atonement and perhaps some form of compensation.
Another, wite, was a fine paid to the king by a criminal as an atonement for his deed.
Judaism was a religion of sacrifice, in which the proffered gifts were seen as an atonement for sin.
Mr. Belfort, who now calls himself a moral man, says he sees the book as an atonement.
Fourthly, if I may say so, it is like an atonement of the wrongs that have been done by the human beings to Mother Nature.
Most of the running costs of Jewish synagogues, schools, cemeteries, libraries, hospitals and nursing homes are met by the German state as an atonement for the past.
"Do No Harm" is an act of atonement, an anatomy of error, and an attempt to answer, from the inside, a startling question: How can someone spend decades cutting into people's brains and emerge whole?
The death of the chicken was not a matter of farming or sustenance, but an ancient atonement ritual that made a lasting impression on young Ari.
"In a way, 'Atonement' is a movie about the death of youth," Ms. Knightley said in a telephone interview.
His gay sexcapades were a perverse atonement to save their relationship, an eye for an eye to preserve a future they could see together.
The jersey exchange was promoted as a goodwill gesture to fans, and, more vaguely, as an act of atonement or an apology.
