How to Use repent in a Sentence

repent

verb

• The preacher told us that we would be forgiven for our sins if we repented.
• The preacher told us that we would be forgiven if we repented our sins.
• He was told to go home and repent.
  — Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
• The sounds of the Shofar are said to awaken the soul to repent.
  — Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2022
• Every one has a secret to hide, a grudge to work off, a sin to repent or to rejoice in.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 2 June 2017
• At the time of the harvest God will give us much mercy and grace and time to fully repent.
  — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 19 Mar. 2021
• Cult members stood ready with machetes to take down those who failed to repent to their satisfaction.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
• One problem with legislating in haste, though, is that the authors may be left to repent at leisure.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
• Wouldn’t serving as a hardworking missionary be the best way to repent?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
• Some people fast from sunset to sunset during the holiday as a way to repent.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2022
• There is no speaker who can be blamed or praised, no individual agent who can repair or repent.
  — Deb Roy, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
• These thoughts and feelings seemed to be spiritual promptings to repent to a bishop.
  — Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• But as believers say, there’s always time to repent, and the truest repentance is action.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 15 Sep. 2017
• Pet owners in southern Palm Beach County whose pets have been naughty can repent.
  — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• That’s why for this Lent, may Christians repent of Trump like never before.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
• And all of us, except those few culinary heathens who should repent now while the festival is nigh, depend on garlic.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2021
• Prophets often speak of the need to repent for past wrongdoing, but Hayhoe doesn’t urge guilt on her listeners.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2021
• In the second act, Giovanni, having failed to repent after being warned time and time again, is dragged to hell.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 22 July 2019
• Today, Christians use the holiday both to repent and reflect.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 26 Feb. 2020
• After being confronted by the prophet Nathan, David repented and changed his ways.
  — Christopher Hale, The Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2017
• His efforts to repent led him into a spiral of extreme scrupulosity.
  — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2021
• More joy in Heaven over one sinner who repents than ninety-nine righteous people who’ve got nothing to repent.
  — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• Most of them refused the statutory offer to repent of their actions in order to receive a more lenient sentence.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• But the Virgin Mary and the angels had cajoled him into granting humankind one last chance to repent.
  — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• Kendra, for Joseph, for the whole family, wake up and repent of their pride, their feeling of the world is against them, get things right in their family.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
• Hess ultimately decides to repent for his sins, but Ganja refuses to go back to the mortal world.
  — Carvell Wallace, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2021
• Not coincidentally, the instrument used to rally us to repent is the shofar.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps the ex-lawyer might repent and devote the remainder of his life to charitable causes, as Michael Milken has done.
  — Michael I. Krauss, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Kylo was more interested in power than in repenting for his sins (killing his father, Han Solo, key among them).
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Nov. 2019
• For religious Jews, Rosh Hashana is a time for self-reflection, to repent for the past, and to move forward, Levy said.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2020