Words similar to penance

Example sentences for: penance

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

As a penance for his father’s usury, the patrician Enrico Scrovegni built the simple little hall in 1303 specifically for the great Giotto frescoes.
As penance, she promises to retire the hillbilly stereotype from this day forward.
The basic concept is hokey, if mildly original: A band of old-west nasties stumbles into a strange town populated by the souls of dead outlaws doing penance in the hopes of earning a seat on the great stagecoach to heaven.
Some sources suggest that Dole's redoubled efforts are "penance" for disparaging comments he had made about the campaign.
It sounds suspiciously like National Secretaries Week: penance that allows everyone to be thoughtlessly rude the other 358 days of the year.