The phrase "atone for making" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing the desire to make amends or seek forgiveness for a specific action or mistake.
Example: "He wanted to atone for making the wrong decision that affected his team."
Alternatives: "make amends for" or "seek forgiveness for".
The shawl-like canopies that topped some of the dresses in Jeremy Laing's collection went so far as to smack of church-lady propriety, as if he meant to atone for making clothes that in the past were so complicated as to outconstruct Frank Gehry.
However, China Netcom, a firm controlled by the Chinese government which owns a 20% stake in PCCW, gave warning that it did not want to see any change to PCCW's ownership.The governor of Japan's central bank, Toshihiko Fukui, offered to take a pay cut to atone for making a hefty profit from his investment in a fund managed by Yoshiaki Murakami, who was arrested recently on insider-trading charges.
Both drivers were called to see the race stewards to explain the incident, with Verstappen ordered to carry out "two days of public service" to atone for "making deliberate physical contact with" Ocon.
Tonight Earl tries to make it up to a woman he broke up with by faking his own death, teaches English as a second language to atone for having made fun of people with accents, tries to help a mother and daughter win a beauty pageant (so he can give the prize porcelain figure to his ex-wife) and sets out to help a golf fanatic put his life back together.
The Clinton campaign spent months of time and effort atoning for statements made in emails sent through Hillary Clinton's private server, and continues to respond to emails hacked by, allegedly, the Russian government and leaked through Wikileaks.
So, just as I acknowledge we have made mistakes, I hope you and everyone inside and outside the company will acknowledge that we are doing our utmost to fix them, atone for them, and make sure they never happen again.
But let us pause for a moment to remember what "redeeming" actually is: atoning or making up for some mistake or wrongdoing.
The Obama administration has the chance to reverse this course, not by atoning or making reparations for the past, but by embracing the realities of race-based advocacy needed for future success.
Fallout from the data leak left Sony's internal infrastructure crippled and many company executives scrambling to atone for embarrassing comments made in the thousands of private emails that were leaked.
They are telling you that you need to do something to atone or make amends for your error".
There's this idea of redemption floating around in much of the coverage of Sheen's return -- the notion that he's "atoning" or somehow making up for a long history of thuggish behavior.
