How to Use atone in a Sentence

atone

1 of 2 verb

• Yet this movie is great enough to atone.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
• This is Bell’s time to atone for what transpired last year.
  — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
• Each one of them, Josh knew, was trying to atone for a wrong.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2021
• Is there any way to atone for one’s mistakes, no matter how grave?
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• None may atone for my actions but me and only in me shall their stain live on.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
• But the display of piety has done little to mask that the army chief has much to atone for.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
• And that is something that needs to be redeemed and addressed and atoned for.
  — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
• Villains atoned, only to revert to their old ways.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 8 Apr. 2026
• Simply paying more from one year to the next does not atone for the grave offense at hand.
  — Adam Parness, Billboard, 22 May 2024
• Mane then did get his goal in the 77th minute and atoned for his earlier miss.
  — SI.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Cassie loves to party but dies in a freak accident and must atone for her wrongs on earth to earn her wings.
  — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2021
• Putting the rotation on his shoulders in the second half would do a lot to atone for that.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022
• The Eagles are on a mission to atone for missing a state berth by one place last year.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
• Biden has the chance to atone for the sins of his forebears and build up some serious street cred on climate.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2021
• Moses destroyed the tablets in anger, but the people atoned for their sin, so God forgave them.
  — Sofia Barrett, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
• The Jesuits are leading an effort to atone for a past of slavery.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
• How does a city atone for killing as many as 300 of its Black citizens?
  — Maria C. Hunt, House Beautiful, 1 June 2021
• To Garrett, the extension was a way to give back more and atone for his mistake.
  — cleveland, 9 Sep. 2020
• Nichushkin atoned for his earlier mistake with the third goal of the period.
  — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
• Hedges nearly atoned in the bottom of the inning, sending a fly ball to deep right-center.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 May 2017
• The show would be their effort to atone, perhaps, and, of course, their effort to make a comeback of some sort.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
• To atone for that addition, perhaps, the owners kept the ratty red vinyl on the stools at the counter.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• The deadline afforded Brown a chance to atone for those mistakes.
  — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
• In a tie game, and the power play 0 for 3 to that point, DeBrusk atoned.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2019
• But the memo also tells the story of a grown man who spent his time behind bars trying to atone for the crime that put him there.
  — Issie Lapowsky Abdul Kircher, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• McGirt played in morning and made a pair of eagles on the back nine to atone in his round of 67.
  — Doug Ferguson, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
• McGirt played in the morning and made a pair of eagles on the back nine to atone in his round of 67.
  — Doug Ferguson, courant.com, 11 May 2017
• On Yom Kippur, Jewish people atone for their sins from the past year.
  — CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
• Hopefully for the Browns, Wilson will soon have a chance to atone for the mistake.
  — cleveland, 19 Aug. 2020
• Now Google is offering its smarts and a small (to Google) chunk of change to begin to atone for its sins.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2018

at one

2 of 2 phrase

• Some guys were having drinks at one of the cocktail tables by the bar.
  — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
• There were so many fans, vendors at one point ran out of pretzels and pizza.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2026
• That’s because he wasn’t supposed to be playing in the game at one point.
  — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
• The latter then scored as the ball bounced into left field, tying the game at one.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
• Gauff then seized the second set with a 117 mph ace to even it at one set all.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• The goal should not be to address as many issues as possible at one time.
  — Lynette Bell, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
• Grab a seat at the bar or at one of a few tables scattered around the room and enjoy a cold drink.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 10 July 2026
• The couple had two daughters and lived in Hong Kong at one point.
  — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
• Staying at one company for decades was once a badge of honor.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
• Coffin revealed the creative team had even explored the idea at one point.
  — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
• Data from real-world systems rarely changes at one constant rate.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2026
• The intruder would open a portal at one address, ping the servers a few times, then close it.
  — Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
• Smurf played with bumps and bruises and half a tooth at one point against Georgia Tech.
  — Hunter Delauder, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
• The freezers needed cleaning and there were no paper towels or soap at one of the hand sinks.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2026
• The whistle blew moments later, sending us to extra time tied at one goal apiece.
  — Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2026
• The rate will not increase more than once a month, but there is no limit on the amount that the rate could increase at one time.
  — Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 9 June 2026
• What the system learns at one property becomes the starting point at the next.
  — Roman Pedan, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
• The changes are an abrupt reset at one of the world’s most important AI labs.
  — Richard Nieva, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
• But much of the brain-imaging research has looked at women around midlife and measured their brains at one point in time.
  — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Aug. 2026
• Because at one point, you guys controlled a lot of the distribution.
  — Max Tani, semafor.com, 14 Aug. 2026
• The rest of the leak is the car driving around the city, at one point ironically stopping at a stop sign.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
• Such is life on the night shift at one of TV‘s most indelible workplaces.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026
• The inspector found sauces stored without a date marking, no soap at one of the hand sinks and a dead roach in the kitchen.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Aug. 2026
• That gives the creator a real number to build packages around instead of guessing at one.
  — Chris Ryan, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
• Even a quick shot of Pike flying through the air at one the pirates took elaborate planning.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 20 Aug. 2026
• These large-scale edits happen to everyone at one time or another.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
• Prosecutors said at one point, Parks struck the man with his vehicle.
  — Renee Anderson, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
• Her legs also began swelling, and at one point, her vision temporarily went white.
  — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
• The legacy carrier might be more expensive and force a passenger to make a stop at one of its hubs.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
• The threshold is 50 megawatts at one site, roughly a mid-sized data center campus.
  — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026