How to Use atonement in a Sentence

atonement

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  • He was promised an opportunity at atonement with a scheduled start in Game 4.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The story of the drum, of Jim and Joe, are not stories of atonement.
    — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
  • And then came his coup de grace, an atonement for the past two weeks.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2020
  • On Yom Kippur, one completes atonement for the wrongs of the past year.
    — Ben Beezy, latimes.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Brown would have her first chance for atonement leading off the bottom of the third.
    — Tony Baranek, Daily Southtown, 5 June 2017
  • As the home crowd erupted, Malkin spread his arms and howled, the sound of a sinner who had found atonement . . .
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • It’s about justice and fairness, and taking a first step on the road to atonement.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The second is Yom Kippur, the day of atonement (sunset, Oct. 4).
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The morning after Bull and Isaac tussled over the church food, Bull slept through his chance at atonement.
    — J. M. Holmes, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • Before that, John Paul II offered his atonement for a number of the church’s sins.
    — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
  • But the path to atonement is racial unity, not more division.
    — Sahil Handa, National Review, 13 June 2019
  • At the time, the move was widely seen, at least in part, as a grand gesture of atonement for the worst crimes of German history.
    — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
  • With the game still tied midway through the third, McKenzie had his chance at atonement and didn’t disappoint.
    — Jake Levin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Blessings to all during the observance of this holy day of atonement.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The High Holy Days are a time of prayer, reflection, repentance and atonement.
    — al, 28 Sep. 2020
  • But Halperin has yet to undertake any sort of atonement for his misdeeds.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The one-term president described his decision as a form of atonement for his sins and, like Adams, swore in on a book of laws.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Instead the money should be used for helping people as atonement for all the lives that were taken.
    — courant.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But can there be too much contrition from those who were complicit with the Nazis, and is there such a thing as too much atonement?
    — Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
  • At the same time, Germany’s process of atonement for its war crimes is widely recognized.
    — Jasper Bastian, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
  • At first an account of action and adventure, the letter turns to Meissner’s quest to live a life of atonement.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Eight years later, as a further act of atonement, Goldsmith began work on this book.
    — David J. Garrow, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Francis didn’t believe that blood atonement was required for God to love or forgive us.
    — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Apr. 2021
  • So was his effort, in part, a gesture of atonement for the failings of his predecessors?
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Evan’s dodgy act of atonement builds up his own social capital.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • For the Houghton Library, a respectful burial of the human remains would be a long overdue act of atonement.
    — Paul Needham, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Repentance and atonement for one's sins are at the core of the holiday, while the days are typically filled with fasting and prayer.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
  • If Hasan was their frontrunner, there’s a lot of atonement that would have to probably happen with regard to Hasan.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Smith continued the atonement phase of his career with a fourth-inning single that made Shark pay for Frazier's one-out triple.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 20 July 2019
  • Germany’s atonement after the Holocaust shows a path – albeit a bumpy one – forward.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024

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