How to use "repent" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "repent" in popular movie and book plots

  • But now it is too late to repent on her mistakes — Neel learns that she is having an affair with Karan, and he leaves her.  - Saat Phere: Saloni Ka Safar
  • In the process, Siddhu opens up his heart, leaving Aravind to repent on his over-protectiveness.  - Bommarillu
  • Lot pleads with the angels to spare the city if he can find just ten Sodomite citizens who will repent and leave the cities with him.  - Sodom and Gomorrah (1962 film)
  • She would allow him to repent for his sins as an assassin by saving the world from the demons unleashed upon it.  - Otogi: Myth of Demons
  • Jonah then delivers the message given to him by God that the Ninevites should repent of their ways forever or Nineveh will be destroyed.  - Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
  • They all repent but Prerna refuses to forgive them especially Anurag.  - Kasautii Zindagii Kay
  • Arren tells Therru he will leave for home to repent for his crime, but will come back to see her some day.  - Tales from Earthsea (film)
  • Jimmy runs to Mary, debating whether to continue being under the influence or repent his ways ("Mary Jane/ Mary Lane").  - Reefer Madness (2005 film)
  • Viktor, however, refuses to publicly repent and is forced to resign.  - Life and Fate
  • He tells Scrooge to repent or suffer the same as him by wearing a chain like Marley wears: the one he forged from his own greed.  - A Christmas Carol (2004 film)
  • Eragon arranges affairs so that Sloan will regain eyesight in the future, should he repent for his crimes.  - Brisingr
  • Lola loses her sight and tries to repent by praying to the Virgin Mary, but it is too late: Harold apprehends her and takes her to prison.  - The Crow: Wicked Prayer
  • Shore then tells his crew that he hopes to lead them to repent just as he led them to sin and they all agree not to be pirates anymore.  - The Female American
  • Davidson, however, says that the only way to fully repent is for her to go to prison.  - Sadie Thompson
  • Shining figures, men and women whom they have known on Earth, come to meet them, and to urge them to repent and enter Heaven proper.  - The Great Divorce
  • Willoughby arrives to repent and reveals to Elinor that his love for Marianne was genuine.  - Sense and Sensibility

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