Examples of 'doing penance' in a sentence

Meaning of "doing penance"

doing penance: Engaging in acts of self-imposed repentance or atonement for wrongdoing or sins. This phrase is often associated with seeking forgiveness, redemption, or spiritual cleansing through voluntary acts of contrition or reparation

How to use "doing penance" in a sentence

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I was literally doing penance to meet you.
Christians should show joy while doing penance.
While he is doing penance nobody eats anything.
For years she is here now doing penance.
Doing penance in his little cell.
You must not speak to a man doing penance.
Tom is doing penance.
He looked thin and frail because he was always fasting and doing penance.
I have devoted my life to doing penance for my crime.
I am doing penance for my sins.
Inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand.
Only by doing penance you will as before be able to bring about the universe.
Sounds like someone doing penance.
I am doing penance.
Do not disturb a man doing penance.

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He is doing penance.
There are many ways of doing penance.
He is doing penance like saint Job.
I know why you are doing penance.
Parvathi was doing penance at this place to seek the hands of Shiva.
That she was doing penance.
I spend my life doing penance for things I never should have done in the first place.
He was engrossed in meditation and doing penance all of the time.
Doing penance involved confessing his guilt to the whole East Lavant congregation the following Sunday.
We are all doing penance.
I have been as bored in Podlasie as a devil doing penance.
They are doing penance.
She spent many years studying Scripture and doing penance.
He is released after doing penance at Christmas.
He was thirsty and sought water from sage Agastya who was doing penance.
Maybe this was his way of doing penance for his sins.
And doing penance and seeing my own self-loathing.
Pandavas were supposed to have pleased Shiva by doing penance in Kedarnath.
Now I am doing penance in a convent.
He spent three years on the banks of Narmada River doing penance.
Did me brother have you doing penance all night again?
I have been hanging here for quite a while, doing penance.
Is it a way of doing penance for the sins of their parents?
He's the one who needs to be doing penance.
A Yogi was doing penance ( tapas ) for a number of years on the banks of the Ganges.
The last one who should … be doing penance is you.
He 's doing penance for all humanity.
We are saved by faith alone, not by doing penance or buying indulgences.
People eat the leaves and fruits, take the water and keep doing penance.
Are you just nuts or are you doing penance for some major past sin here?
We feel guilty or we feel we're doing penance.
Is not it? He is doing penance like saint Job.
Father? You must not speak to a man doing penance.
Now I know that I was doing penance for you … just in the wrong order.
Audience, I see a lot of people who seem fatalistic like they are doing penance forever.

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Examples of using Penance
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