Sentence examples for be penance from inspiring English sources
noun
A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
A mere reacceleration back to home country standbys wasn't going to be penance enough.
"It serves as a warm-up before a big gig; they feel more a part of the neighborhood, and for some, it may be penance for their sins".
It would not be penance for a rotten year in which MPs have been castigated over their expenses and the prime minister has been criticised for just about everything.
Is it intended to be penance?
One argument from the Dodgers has been that the broadcast-rights bonanza has paid to put a first-rate team on the field, but two straight World Series washouts may be penance for the deal with the devil.
There was penance, and there was pile-on.
But the exuberant spirit that animated the first book has been subdued: "This new exile was penance," Teresita thinks.
"The third quarter is penance for previous sins, but the sins happened under his watch," said Meredith A. Whitney, a banking analyst at CIBC World Markets.
Hundreds of university students staged another anti-government demonstration late on Wednesday, marching barefoot in what they said was penance for the country's economic and crime problems.
This something further is penance.
Maybe this is penance for that China thing.
