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How to use penitently in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word penitently? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
This only happens when we come penitently to embrace Jesus Christ as our only hope.
The mother, usually veiled, carried the candle blessed at Candlemas and waited penitently for the priest at the vestibule of the church with her husband and female companions.
Keeping her head penitently bowed, Allie murmured silent good byes to all she could remember in the heat, while tears dared to brink her dark lashes.
It took him only a few seconds to strangle his mirth once more, and he wiped tears from his eyes while he shook his head as penitently as the low ceiling allowed.
When the scandal broke, one son penitently went to work emptying bed-pans in a leper colony.
Saddhā Tissa penitently returned and pledged his loyalty to Duṭṭhagāmaṇī's campaign.
Building the dam was a terrible error, says the club penitently.
Examples from Classical Literature
Ive been a brute again, cried Nancy, penitently, dashing after her mother.
Who would refuse the kindness for which she begged so penitently?
Suddenly he became quiet and bent toward her anxiously, penitently.
Wickfield's plans,' said the Doctor, stroking his face, and looking penitently at his adviser.
It is I that am the woman of ill-omen,' cried the old lady penitently.
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