Sentence examples for task of penance from inspiring English sources

Only, for your task of penance do not eat her.

When he makes clenched small talk during guitar-tuning gaps between songs, the task of solo performer seems penance, not pleasure.

Given the organization's pathetic history with bringing violent players to task, its failure to institute any real kind of penance came as little surprise.

Of penance and shame?

His journey is a kind of penance.

Now the period of penance is over.

Thus the indulgence encroached upon the sacrament of penance.

In that sense, the book is an act of penance.

Or was this something more like an act of penance?

There is not the faintest whiff of penance about it.

The indulgence abuse sparked the Reformation critique of the sacrament of penance.