How to Use atone in a Sentence
atone
verb
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Some may see this as the chance to atone for that mistake.
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Dave Birkett,
Detroit Free Press,
8 Nov. 2021
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If there’s rot at the heart of things, how can Greta atone?
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Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2023
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Each one of them, Josh knew, was trying to atone for a wrong.
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Lizzie Johnson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Nov. 2021
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In a tie game, and the power play 0 for 3 to that point, DeBrusk atoned.
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BostonGlobe.com,
30 Dec. 2019
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But the display of piety has done little to mask that the army chief has much to atone for.
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New York Times,
2 Feb. 2021
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Brees atoned with a pin-point strike to Ginn for a 36-yard TD in the third quarter that put the game away.
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Jeff Duncan,
NOLA.com,
5 Nov. 2017
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McGirt played in the morning and made a pair of eagles on the back nine to atone in his round of 67.
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Doug Ferguson,
courant.com,
11 May 2017
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Mane then did get his goal in the 77th minute and atoned for his earlier miss.
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SI.com,
24 Feb. 2018
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McGirt played in morning and made a pair of eagles on the back nine to atone in his round of 67.
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Doug Ferguson,
The Denver Post,
11 May 2017
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London’s hideous Walkie Talkie tries to atone for its sins with the Sky Garden.
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Alexandra Lange,
Curbed,
14 June 2018
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That very night, Enkidu has a dream that, to atone for the crime of murdering the Bull of Heaven, one of the two men must die.
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Joan Acocella,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2019
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How does a city atone for killing as many as 300 of its Black citizens?
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Maria C. Hunt,
House Beautiful,
1 June 2021
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None may atone for my actions but me and only in me shall their stain live on.
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Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2022
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Simply paying more from one year to the next does not atone for the grave offense at hand.
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Adam Parness,
Billboard,
22 May 2024
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Moses destroyed the tablets in anger, but the people atoned for their sin, so God forgave them.
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Sofia Barrett,
CNN,
24 Sep. 2023
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The Eagles are on a mission to atone for missing a state berth by one place last year.
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Joe Magill,
cleveland,
13 Oct. 2022
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Putting the rotation on his shoulders in the second half would do a lot to atone for that.
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Peter Abraham,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 July 2022
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Hopefully for the Browns, Wilson will soon have a chance to atone for the mistake.
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cleveland,
19 Aug. 2020
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There have been some moves to atone for the bitter history.
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Yuri Kageyama,
Star Tribune,
9 Aug. 2020
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To atone for that addition, perhaps, the owners kept the ratty red vinyl on the stools at the counter.
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Pete Wells,
New York Times,
6 Dec. 2022
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Is there any way to atone for one’s mistakes, no matter how grave?
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Los Angeles Times,
28 Oct. 2021
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To Garrett, the extension was a way to give back more and atone for his mistake.
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cleveland,
9 Sep. 2020
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A birdie on the final hole still kept him right in the mix to atone for a playoff loss at Kapalua two years ago.
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser,
6 Jan. 2017
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Germany’s efforts to atone for the Holocaust are well known.
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New York Times,
28 May 2021
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Now Google is offering its smarts and a small (to Google) chunk of change to begin to atone for its sins.
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Robert Hackett,
Fortune,
21 Mar. 2018
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So those who want to improve their standing must atone.
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al,
30 Sep. 2019
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The show would be their effort to atone, perhaps, and, of course, their effort to make a comeback of some sort.
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Matthew Gilbert,
BostonGlobe.com,
3 May 2018
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Big in the middle: Schoop’s later at-bats atoned for some of the early miscues, though.
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Jon Meoli,
baltimoresun.com,
15 June 2017
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Pak atones for a three-putt bogey on the 18th hole in regulation that set up the playoff.
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Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2024
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Her reasons for wanting to make the kid into a star are manifold and messy: She’s got plenty to atone for, and plenty of her own buried suffering goading her on.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
8 May 2024
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