Example Sentences

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Two years later, Kyler Gordon has atoned for the lightning game.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2021

And, in some ways, the precedent of how it has atoned for the Holocaust makes colonial reconciliation more difficult — raising expectations and setting up uncomfortable comparisons.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2020

Bastani has atoned for that night in more ways than one.

From Forbes • Oct. 31, 2013

Our Lord Jesus Christ has atoned for our sins in so efficacious and entire a manner, that no other atonement is required of us.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio

He is a wonderful old man, I think, and whether he swam off and left ‘you’ or not, he has atoned for it after all these years.”

From The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow by Crane, Laura Dent