atones
- present tense form of atone (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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He latches onto a careless back-header by Tyler Bindon and takes the ball around Reading keeper Joel Pereira, but Bindon atones by getting back to block on the line.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
It's a pattern of really bad behavior for which she never really atones.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2020
Pak atones for a three-putt bogey on the 18th hole in regulation that set up the playoff.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 4, 2020
But it’s also here that Sud, in a sort of three-episode epilogue, more than atones for any lingering resentment about how “The Killing” dealt with conclusions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2018
It was among lean-to’s and adaptations—past ogham atones commemorating some long-dead Deag the son of No, built into a later bastion upside down.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
