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Example sentences for "repentant"

Lexicographically close words:
repelling; repels; repens; repent; repentance; repentaunce; repente; repented; repenteth; repenting
  1. According to Paul's teaching, Simon was not baptized into Christ; but the repentant thief was baptized into Christ and put on Christ.

  2. Altho' admittedly not baptized with water the repentant thief was born again.

  3. Being once more Lord Loveland, and having a repentant New York at his feet, would not give him Lesley Dearmer.

  4. He conveyed the impression of being a blend of repentant sinner and hardy Norseman.

  5. There was something soft and repentant about her.

  6. Whereupon this ridiculous girl with the impertinent nose flopped down on her knees on the sidewalk and made such comically repentant faces that all four giggled merrily.

  7. Each took more pleasure in repentant sinners than in virtuous saints.

  8. The Hindoos and Persians used a branch of laurel or some other shrub for sprinkling the repentant candidate, whether water or blood was used.

  9. As unto these repentant ones We open wide our toil-worn ranks, Along our line a murmur runs Of song, and praise, and grateful thanks.

  10. But for Dorothy's sake he rose and followed her, feeling almost like a repentant thief who had stolen the meal.

  11. The garden, however, looked quite another thing, for it had lifted itself up from the wilderness in which it was suffocated, reviving like a repentant soul reborn.

  12. Soon then had the repentant Othello, rushing after his wife, explained all, and received easiest pardon: he had but killed her.

  13. No doubt he is fully repentant after all that has happened.

  14. Eola, repentant that she had hurt her feelings by remarks about the bazaar gossip, softened in her manner and begged to hear the news.

  15. Her soul's appeased with his repentant tears, Wishing he may survive her many years.

  16. That were a dangerous case, perhaps the fellow In desperation would, to soothe us up, Promise repentant recantation, And after fall into that desperate course, Both which I will prevent with policy.

  17. Why did He direct my repentant steps to this spot--to this soul-soothing spot which I have enjoyed only to lose?

  18. It was a delightful surprise to the Pope, who immediately ratified all the proceedings of his repentant son, and in a short time was rewarded by seeing Apulia and the great island of Sicily held in homage as fiefs of St. Peter's chair.

  19. Agonized with fear, howling with repentant horror, he was indebted to one of his attendants for the blow which his own cowardly hand could not administer, and he died the basest, lowest, and most pitiless of all the emperors.

  20. Even so, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God, over one repentant sinner.

  21. I tell you, that just so will there be joy in heaven over one repentant sinner, more than over ninety-nine righteous persons, who hold not their need of repentance.

  22. Both father and son were imprisoned and proceedings seem to have been instituted against them by one of the now repentant jurymen who had tried the case.

  23. This he did on the authority of a repentant Mr. Edmonds, of Cambridge, who had once been questioned by the University authorities for witchcraft.

  24. The English sailor is only a bit sorry to think he has expended his cash so freely; a little repentant at having done it so foolishly; and, on the whole, a good deal downhearted.

  25. He recalled, with the self-accusation of a repentant prodigal, his needlessly elaborate breakfast, the extravagance of the necktie.

  26. Christianity in its full meaning, a repentant and clean heart and mind--these will do it.

  27. Who can taste the sweetness of God as can the repentant sinner?

  28. It was Madelene's turn to be repentant and apologetic.

  29. And, naturally, I like to know that he really did care for me and is ashamed and repentant of the baseness that made him act as he did.

  30. Tom Burrows's repentant face recalled Mr Wentworth's mind to the fact that a great work was doing in Wharfside, which, after all, was more worth thinking of than any tantalising vision of an impossible benefice.

  31. I don't think there is any one so good as you are; and as long as we are together it does not matter to me where we are," said the repentant woman.

  32. The cruelest Portent that has risen into created Space these ten centuries: let us hail it, with awestruck repentant hearts, as the voice once more of a God, though of one in wrath.

  33. Repentant Captains of Industry: A Chactaw Fighter become a Christian Fighter (p.

  34. Joe disappeared for an hour or so, but returned at midnight to our meeting, and at half-past twelve knelt in the street, with another repentant young man, confessing his ruinous and shameful sin.

  35. Hundreds of repentant men and boys have knelt in the dust of Custom House Place, Peoria Street, and Armour Avenue.

  36. Among the hundreds of repentant men and youths who have knelt in the dust of Chicago's most infamous streets, in the open air meetings of The Midnight Mission, is one whom we will call Joe.

  37. Again, let me recall to your mind, Jesus Himself forgave and renewed repentant ones.

  38. Several repentant young men were on their knees in the dust, surrounded by missionaries working with them and praying for them.

  39. And the beautiful skies of Australia seem intended by Providence as a symbol of mercy, to entice home the prodigal but repentant son of earth.

  40. They came now as repentant children to a father, to whose counsel and guidance they would submit themselves.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repentant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abject; apologetic; ascetic; ashamed; cleansing; compensatory; guilty; humble; humbled; lustral; melted; penitent; penitential; propitiatory; purgative; purgatorial; purifying; redeeming; redemptive; regretful; remorseful; reparative; repentant; sheepish; softened; sorry; touched