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How To Use penitent In A Sentence

• In Kingston, we check out the museum at the penitentiary, where convicts have been housed for well over 100 years.
• Here is Fleece Johnson, a woolly-hatted veteran of Kentucky State Penitentiary, gravely recalling the good old days: In this prison, booty was more important than food. Prison Porn
• If John Doe is sentenced to a term of imprisonment and later goes out of his mind, the state may continue to keep him in the penitentiary for the duration of his sentence.
• And it becomes all of us to mourn, and to humble ourselves before him in penitent sorrow. The Nation's Mourning. A Sermon Preached Before the Congregational Church and Society in Green's Farms, Conn., on the Day of the National Fast, Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, June 1st, 1865.
• Later she took the impenitent young 'duffer' a tea cunningly designed to appeal to his rebellious heart, and spread it neatly on the big dimity-covered box in his bedroom; but Dick was implacable. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
• Jesse Johnson said his father, known to friends and family as R.J., had lived through a riot at the penitentiary in 1993 and knew the danger of his job but never dwelled on it. S.D. inmates accused of killing guard for uniform
• Among his penitents was a beautiful young girl, about nineteen years old. The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional
• “The monk hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart,” said De Bracy. Ivanhoe
• It would entail suspension from Eucharistic communion and taking one's seat in a special part of the church building reserved for penitents.
• This only happens when we come penitently to embrace Jesus Christ as our only hope.