Sentence examples for doing penance for from inspiring English sources
Are workers doing penance for the time they spent in, say, the housing construction industry?
At some level, Janet was doing penance for her past destructive behavior.
Later, describing his new line of work, Dunn told me he was doing penance for his Coca-Cola years.
As if doing penance for Michael's sins, it eventually metes out unequivocal punishment, but it is small consolation.
This is where they put the retarded creatures and criminals — animals doing penance for something they committed when they were human.
(Is he doing penance for all the corrupt attorneys in his adult books?) He tells his story scrupulously, explaining fine points of criminal law and, as far as I can tell (not being a lawyer myself), sticking to legal reality.
There is, however, something that Obama can do to help thwart Trump and do penance for his own immigration sins.
It survives today in the name Shrove Tuesday (once we did penance for our sins; now we make pancakes).
In past decades, relations were shaped by both lucrative business deals and a need to do penance for the horrors inflicted in World War II.
At noon on the first Sunday in January, to do penance for being a populist in fancy digs, de Blasio hosted an open house.
After much reflection, he resolved to imitate the holy austerities of the saints in order to do penance for his sins.
