do penance

Examples (10)

• He decided to do public penance for his sins.
• The monk was told to do penance by fasting for three days.
• I feel like I'm doing penance just by sitting through this boring meeting.
• She had to do penance for her mistakes before they would forgive her.
• As part of his religious duty, he would do penance every Friday.
• The criminal was ordered to do penance through community service.
• They were required to do penance for their ancestors' actions.
• Is it really necessary to do penance for such a minor error?
• After the argument, he did penance by doing all the household chores.
• Many pilgrims travel to the holy site to do penance.