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Example sentences for: penance

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Some sources suggest that Dole's redoubled efforts are "penance" for disparaging comments he had made about the campaign.
The songs are mystic in nature; many narrate the story of Christ’s life, his anguish, betrayal, his crucifixion and resurrection, and others praise the virtues of suffering and penance.
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.
It sounds suspiciously like National Secretaries Week: penance that allows everyone to be thoughtlessly rude the other 358 days of the year.
Times should do penance by giving up tobacco advertising, as the Boston Globe just announced it will do.