Example Sentences

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It turns out Cole is instead repentantly responsible.

From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2012

After V-E day, the gaunt-faced old U-boat commander had dived repentantly, leaving a bubble of advice to his fellow Germans to confess "the crimes committed during the last twelve years."

From Time Magazine Archive

Right after Korea, pound-foolish Louis Johnson had repentantly told the Joint Chiefs to shoot the works.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Because if I'd a-known it," he burst out repentantly, "I'd never touched it—no, honest, I never would."

From Rimrock Jones by Coolidge, Dane

Let me have my liberty to begin life over again honestly, repentantly, and with the earnest desire to redeem the past.

From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville