Words similar to expiation

Example sentences for: expiation

How can you use “expiation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Shrugs the journalist, by way of expiation, "It wasn't my story."
Deborah Mathis, Jack Germond, Nina Totenberg ( Inside Washington ), and Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ) detect hollowness in Clinton's teary expiation for international silence on Rwanda.