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Example sentences for "repent"

Lexicographically close words:
repellent; repeller; repelling; repels; repens; repentance; repentant; repentaunce; repente; repented
  1. It was to Mrs. Liang she confided one day that there seemed little inducement to repent and be saved, if going to heaven would entail associating with foreigners for all eternity.

  2. And if you try to deceive me, you will repent it.

  3. But at the same time--though I can't give him everything--he shall not repent his bargain.

  4. One universal commandment of God is, for all men every where to repent and be baptized, and keep all other laws of God, as they shall be dispensed from the great High Priest through the delegated authorities.

  5. How great will be the severity of God's judgments upon all that are accessory to modern christianity, except they repent and obey the gospel!

  6. Therwith made I no more adoo, but shot him ful into the throat with my pistol: no more spake he after; so did I shoote him that hee might never speak after, or repent him.

  7. At this sermon the terrour of Gods judgementes did manifestly teach me, that my exercises were damnable, and that I should bee wipte out of the booke of life, if I did not speedily repent my loosenes of life, and reforme my misdemeanors.

  8. I presume you speak from experience; you have been disappointed yourself, and repent your choice.

  9. I do not repent my choice--may you never repent yours!

  10. Bitterly do I repent having accepted of such obligations from this strange woman; for, as to the idea of regaining our estate, and paying my debt to her, I have given up all hopes of it.

  11. Rue "to take the rue," to repent of a proposal or bargain.

  12. I repent of nothing; I would not alter anything.

  13. No, I repent nothing, yet here now I give you this to read while still my story of the days of which you know is in your ears.

  14. But do not think that in telling it now I repent of my secrecy.

  15. Repent great S{r} and be for ever blest, in Heaven with me that happy place of rest.

  16. Let us depart and Shun their cruell fate, and all repent before it is to late.

  17. You may be assured will one day repent his insolence.

  18. If Heaven grant him but to live, I shall never repent what he has cost me.

  19. Then she seemed to repent of this allusion, and hastily added, "A woman's days are so tedious that it is a boon to leave even one of them out of the account.

  20. Footnote 3: He could repent of and pray forgiveness for the murder, if he could repent of the adultery and incest, and give up the queen.

  21. Apply to him, madame, and you will not repent of it.

  22. Do not make me repent of it by the ingratitude which is characteristic of your sex.

  23. I shall never repent of that escapade, although it offended persons for the time whose good opinion I value.

  24. It seems the Shaster positively enjoins that the pile shall be so constructed that, if the victim should repent even at the moment when it is set on fire, she may still have the means of saving herself.

  25. Age or disease, misfortune or caprice, have tempted several princes to descend from the throne; and they have had leisure to repent of their irretrievable step.

  26. But so be it; if she only knows me, and remembers our former relation, I shall not repent the long journey of eighteen hundred miles, and will then willingly lie down in my grave, and sleep by the side of my ancestors and friends!

  27. In 912, Gregoras and Choirosphacta were obliged to join the brotherhood to repent at leisure for having favoured the attempt of Constantine Ducas, domestic of the Scholae, to usurp the throne of Constantine VII.

  28. Mary Peribleptos (Soulou Monastir), and after having their eyes burnt out were banished to different monasteries, to muse on the vanity of human greatness and repent of their misdeeds.

  29. There might be reasons why I should repent going.

  30. I am no baby, I, that with base prayers I should repent the evils I have done; Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did Would I perform, if I might have my will.

  31. If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

  32. Traitor, if Rome have law or we have power, Thou and thy faction shall repent this rape.

  33. If you go to Varleigh tomorrow, you will repent it to the last day of your life.

  34. Even if he failed to repent of his own cruel conduct, the man would still miss her, as something lost out of his life; and, sooner or later, he would come back.

  35. But if he repent not of his sins, which are unbelief and blindness of heart, let him take heed lest he fall.

  36. And we know that all men must repent and believe on the name of Jesus Christ, and worship the Father in His name, and endure in faith on His name to the end, or they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.

  37. For all men must repent and be baptized, and not only men, but women, and children who have arrived to the years of accountability.

  38. And now I command you, my servant Joseph, to repent and walk more uprightly before me, and to yield to the persuasions of men no more; 22.

  39. And the idler shall not have place in the Church, except he repent and mend his ways.

  40. Verily I say unto you, that I, the Lord, will chasten them, and will do whatsoever I list, if they do not repent and observe all things whatsoever I have said unto them.

  41. Wherefore, let the Church repent of their sins, and I, the Lord, will own them, otherwise they shall be cut off.

  42. And ye shall go forth baptizing with water, saying--Repent ye, repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

  43. And you must preach unto the world, saying, You must repent and be baptized, in the name of Jesus Christ; 42.

  44. And if they are not married, they shall repent of all their sins, or ye shall not receive them.

  45. Wherefore in this thing my servant Edward Partridge is not justified; nevertheless let him repent and he shall be forgiven.

  46. And if your brethren desire to escape their enemies, let them repent of all their sins, and become truly humble before me and contrite; 4.

  47. I rebuked them sharply, and told them that the Church must feel the wrath of God except they repent of their sins and cast away their murmurings and complainings one of another.

  48. The Duke has been a stander-by and has had leisure to repent the error which turned him out before, viz.

  49. I do not repent having come to Lyons; I should not have forgiven myself if I had not.

  50. Then she saw that she had made a mistake; and when a woman once begins to repent of her weaknesses, she sponges out the whole past.

  51. So, though life is hard for me just now, I repent of nothing.

  52. Rash and obstinate girl," cried the earl, unable to conceal his mortification; "you will bitterly repent your inconsiderate conduct.

  53. The frenzied man had now, however, begun to repent his rashness, and cried out for aid.

  54. It is mistaken tenderness," rejoined Leonard, "and Heaven grant you may not have cause to repent it.

  55. You will repent your determination when it is too late.

  56. Heaven grant you may not have cause to repent your decision!

  57. You are beside yourself at this moment," cried Rochester, unable to control his anger and mortification, "and will bitterly repent your folly.

  58. As he had little reason to hope for pardon, so he never deluded himself with false expectations about it, but applied himself, as diligently as he was able, to repent of those manifold sins and offences which he had committed.

  59. You that are condemned to die, repent with lamentable tears.

  60. At first he pretended that he thought it no crime for a man to return to his own country, and therefore did not think himself bound to repent of that.

  61. The old man shook his head, but he was far too much afraid that his son would repent him of his hasty resolve to offer any very serious opposition.

  62. Now that the young proprietor's personal influence was no longer felt, he seemed to repent him of his fit of generosity.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amphibian; apologize; batrachian; crawling; creeping; deplore; reform; regret; reptile; reptilian; serpentine; slithering; snaky; tiptoe