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:

Times should do penance by giving up tobacco advertising, as the Boston Globe just announced it will do.
Some sources suggest that Dole's redoubled efforts are "penance" for disparaging comments he had made about the campaign.
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.
(Perhaps Matthew Perry is doing penance for his unfortunate experiments on the big screen.)
It sounds suspiciously like National Secretaries Week: penance that allows everyone to be thoughtlessly rude the other 358 days of the year.