How to Use repent in a Sentence

repent

verb

• The preacher told us that we would be forgiven for our sins if we repented.
• The preacher told us that we would be forgiven if we repented our sins.
• The sounds of the Shofar are said to awaken the soul to repent.
  — Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2022
• At the time of the harvest God will give us much mercy and grace and time to fully repent.
  — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 19 Mar. 2021
• Every one has a secret to hide, a grudge to work off, a sin to repent or to rejoice in.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 2 June 2017
• While that helped save their careers, Hunt did not repent.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• For the die-hards who will repent the end of Corvette's famed V8 powerplant, Pearley Huffman said that would be a mistake.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2022
• For religious Jews, Rosh Hashana is a time for self-reflection, to repent for the past, and to move forward, Levy said.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2020
• One problem with legislating in haste, though, is that the authors may be left to repent at leisure.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
• Pet owners in southern Palm Beach County whose pets have been naughty can repent.
  — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• In the second act, Giovanni, having failed to repent after being warned time and time again, is dragged to hell.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 22 July 2019
• But Koresh refused to repent of his teachings, said Pace, who was leading a small house church in Gadsden, Ala., at the time of the 1993 standoff.
  — Bobby Ross Jr., Houston Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2018
• Cult members stood ready with machetes to take down those who failed to repent to their satisfaction.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
• Wouldn’t serving as a hardworking missionary be the best way to repent?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
• Prophets often speak of the need to repent for past wrongdoing, but Hayhoe doesn’t urge guilt on her listeners.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2021
• Some people fast from sunset to sunset during the holiday as a way to repent.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2022
• After being confronted by the prophet Nathan, David repented and changed his ways.
  — Christopher Hale, The Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2017
• These thoughts and feelings seemed to be spiritual promptings to repent to a bishop.
  — Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• But as believers say, there’s always time to repent, and the truest repentance is action.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 15 Sep. 2017
• Perhaps the ex-lawyer might repent and devote the remainder of his life to charitable causes, as Michael Milken has done.
  — Michael I. Krauss, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• And all of us, except those few culinary heathens who should repent now while the festival is nigh, depend on garlic.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2021
• Bollten said David had repented, and God had forgiven him and allowed him to remain king.
  — USA Today, 13 Feb. 2020
• In the Bible, God calls on Israel to repent and return to principles articulated in his covenant with them.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in the Jewish religion, and the majority of the day is spent in Synagogue, praying and repenting.
  — Alana Abramson, Time, 29 Sep. 2017
• Today, Christians use the holiday both to repent and reflect.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 26 Feb. 2020
• Indeed, by Thursday night the NRA's chief lobbyist claimed the president had repented of his heresy.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2018
• This is not the trajectory of someone who has repented.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2016
• Remember, before anyone points the finger at the church and calls them hypocrites, eventually God will judge all who do not repent and turn back to Him.
  — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Dec. 2020
• Yahoo is repenting and Netflix is lamenting, but first: a cartoon about Elon's summer space camp.
  — Alex Baker-Whitcomb, Wired, 10 Feb. 2020
• Most of them refused the statutory offer to repent of their actions in order to receive a more lenient sentence.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024