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
  • No, the whole story needs to be laid out before the whole world with great detail and a repentant heart.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Van Tatenhove did not appear to be a chastened man or a repentant one.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • Reliable clients — repentant or bored — have stopped calling.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some had arrived at Quinto’s page searching for a repentant statement in response to the public backlash.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • Shaheen, the Taliban spokesman in Doha, seemed anything but repentant.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • But if someone does something wrong and truly has an understanding and is repentant, that’s different.
    — Anna Silman, The Cut, 1 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Because Pellicano, as people will [see] in the documentary, is not exactly a repentant figure.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Far from being repentant, Ritchie viewed the company’s subsequent stock-price wobble as vindication, and claims its top brass reached out to him personally, eager to mend fences.
    — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even though a former Northern League candidate was implicated in the shootings, Salvini was hardly repentant afterward.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • In that climate, Swift argued, defectors like Hoda—young, repentant, and digitally fluent—are unique propaganda assets.
    — Saul Elbein, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • However, these subjects of a repentant reckoning were long thought of, if at all, with fear and condescension, even by their putative political representatives in the Democratic Party.
    — Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2021
  • 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

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