Sample Sentences foratone (editor-reviewed)
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To atone for sins is a common religious theme.atone = make up
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Some think Yom Kippur is the most important Jewish holiday. On it, Jews fast and pray in atonement for their sins.atonement = the process of fixing or making up for a wrong
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She made a genuine effort to atone for her behavior.atone = make up (for a wrong)
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That was why Okonkwo had been Chosen by the nine villages to carry a message of war to their enemies unless they agreed to give up a young man and a virgin to atone for the murder of Udo's wife. (source)
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The thought was madness; it stirred the fiend within me—not I, but she, shall suffer; the murder I have committed because I am forever robbed of all that she could give me, she shall atone. (source)atone = pay for it
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Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast would mean a surer, swifter death. We fasted here the whole year round. (source)Atonement = the process of fixing or making up for a wrong
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We knew we had been guilty, but now we had a way to atone for it. (source)atone = fix or make up (for a wrong)
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This was some strange kind of atonement, (source)atonement = the process of fixing or making up for a wrong
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The living in incessant noise was, to a frame and temper delicate and nervous like Fanny's, an evil which no superadded elegance or harmony could have entirely atoned for. (source)atoned = made up
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Someone replied that the little man obviously had much atoning to do.† (source)
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He atones for being occasionally somewhat over-dressed, by being always absolutely over-educated.† (source)
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The heir of two centuries of unatoned insult and outrage looked down on him and seemed to drink in deep draughts of satisfaction.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unatoned means not and reverses the meaning of atoned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I dole them out equally, these offerings, these atonements, into the waiting hands of my friends.† (source)
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I was horribly embarrassed, feeling that my life had somehow been full of nameless wrong, an unatonable guilt.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unatonable means not and reverses the meaning of atonable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Madeline: I'm usually not atone until then.† (source)
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Our father had testified to her that Shawn had been cleansed by the Atonement of Christ, that he was a new man. (source)Atonement = paying for sins
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