How to Use repentant in a Sentence

repentant

adjective

• Then when the buzzer sounded, a repentant Mitchell dropped the ball and put his hands on his head.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2022
• But if there’s a way to make even that event feel repentant and contrite, the MFA will surely find it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Van Tatenhove did not appear to be a chastened man or a repentant one.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
• The repentant mogul has already published one book in 2017 about his time in the nick and his autoimmune disease.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• My dad, in contrast to my mom, had rebelled against God and the church most of his life — drinking and drugs, mostly — only to come back repentant.
  — John Williams, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
• But the brother’s sweetheart, Abra, succeeds in building a bridge between the stricken father and the repentant son.
  — Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
• Yet when Franklin performs it, the song recaptures the raw emotion that drove the man who wrote it, a repentant sinner praying for God’s grace in a moment of moral peril.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 19 June 2019
• One day, King receives a letter from Nathali Malcolm, the now-repentant woman who set him up more than a decade earlier.
  — Michael Berry, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2018
• The entire hearing had lasted a little more than an hour and now boiled down to just a few difficult questions: Was Peart truly repentant?
  — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Shaheen, the Taliban spokesman in Doha, seemed anything but repentant.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
• She’s stuck at the party, which plays as background to David’s repentant sojourn through an alluring yet decaying desert landscape.
  — Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
• Canadians have been seething over the past week, as one repentant politician after another apologized for taking trips out of the country.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2021
• In back-to-back interviews, he’s portrayed himself as a clumsy and repentant businessman.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
• The party decides which ex-communists are repentant patriots (PiS’s ranks are full of such figures), and which are unreformed enemies of the state.
  — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
• Reliable clients — repentant or bored — have stopped calling.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• First published in 1976, this is the classic, the urtext, the model for a memoir by an angry or repentant former political official.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2018
• But if someone does something wrong and truly has an understanding and is repentant, that’s different.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 1 May 2018
• There would be no need for distinctions between the wrongly and the rightly convicted or the repentant and unrepentant criminal.
  — Scott Davidson, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2020
• The day, more broadly, also seemed to stamp Rodriguez’s return from pariah status after his yearlong drug suspension, marking him as a still vital player for the Yankees and a repentant one at that.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 27 July 2016
• Some say church discipline provides a helpful tool for repentant sinners and needed protection for the faith’s integrity.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 June 2021
• The new statement, sent by Stringfellow to Variety and also posted on his Twitter account, doesn’t acknowledge any specific wrongs but strikes a more repentant tone than the previous one.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
• Ryan said to USA Today, reiterating the firm’s previous statement and repentant stance.
  — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 27 Feb. 2017
• Years before a repentant art world started buying Black art like indulgences, Wiley’s rise provoked grumbles.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• The memo said that Mazzocco tried to tell others in the crowd not to take or destroy any property in the Capitol and that, despite trying to get rid of incriminating evidence against him, Mazzocco is now contrite and repentant.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Oct. 2021
• In the music world, Morgan Wallen and DaBaby will never have a shortage of fans, but will they be reembraced by mainstream media and culture, having been deemed insufficiently repentant for their offenses?
  — Diane Garrett, Variety, 21 Dec. 2021
• Nick Cartell superbly embodies every facet of Valjean’s character — from angry, vengeful young man to repentant middle-age man to noble elder.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• Because Pellicano, as people will [see] in the documentary, is not exactly a repentant figure.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• Among Miami’s Cuban old guard, those who started arriving in the nineties are seen as Comunistas arrepentidos, or repentant Communists.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• Porter's showcase episode finds Pray traveling home to make things right with his biological family, including a repentant aunt played by none other than Jackée Harry.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• Unlike many scientists who file immediate lawsuits when they're caught, Friedman was repentant, resigning from his positions at both Brigham and Women's, and Harvard.
  — Associated Press, WIRED, 10 July 2005

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024