Sentence examples for do penance from inspiring English sources

You must do penance.

"We tend to forgive failings, provided you do penance".

But most are not here to do penance.

He added that he would do penance with a period of contemplation in retreat.

If children are repeatedly late, the parents must join them to do penance at Saturday Academy.

It's the responsibility of the son to do penance, to correct what the father has done.

"For every rock-star move I make onstage, I do penance," he said.

After placating the rebels momentarily, Otto withdrew to the monastery of St. Apollinaris, near Ravenna, to do penance.

In one iteration of the plot, she is shamed enough to do penance by marrying a terribly abusive schoolteacher.

TO MANY churchgoers, the forgiveness of sin is a simple business: confess; be heartily sorry; receive absolution; do penance.

If anything, Mr. Williams seems as if he's seeking to do penance, in his case, for the saccharine "Patch Adams".