Use "amends" in a sentence

1. Her husband was not impressed when she eventually returned home minus the shopping trolley, without any money and too scared to make amends for her failings by popping down to the off-licence for him

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2. In Virgenia's Jools and Robbie were in good spirits and seemed to think I should accept Mercouri's apology, make amends and forget it - after all he was just a bit drunk

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3. He’s cooked for the woman, for Christ's sake, pleading guilty, under house arrest, but he loves her and he wants to make amends

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4. He wasn’t getting any younger and he needed to make amends before it was too late

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5. She had been meaning to make amends with Caroline for months

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6. Please, give me a chance to make amends,” said Ethan, sounding genuinely sincere

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7. There was no way to make amends

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8. He could make no amends that would give him a second chance

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9. 3 "But these forty three days cannot make amends for the hour in which you did transgress My commandment

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10. 16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he has done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it to the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him

11. Is more than amends for all the

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12. He is eager to make amends for his late great-uncle King Sorrin’s crimes on behalf of Zarkog’s conspiracy

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13. “You’re always welcome here, but as to amends, you’ll have to ask my wife

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14. The only way she can rectify the situation is by making amends, and I don’t know if that is even possible

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15. I told her in that case, Mother is precisely whom she will have to approach in order to arrange the meeting, and that she can invite her guides, particularly White Eagle, and we will see if she’s allowed to make amends

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16. have the possibility to make amends for it, by recognizing it as something

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17. but we don’t have the ability to make amends for our offenses

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18. amends for our wrong and we can not ask to receive as a gift what it should be

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19. A prisoner is given adequate time to think over their crime and make amends or choose a new direction in life

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20. wanted to live, wanted a chance to make amends with Michael;

21. The past will continue to haunt you if you do not recognise your mistakes and make amends for them

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22. ” Dana says, then amends hurriedly, “next to Markus, of course

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23. When the psychiatrist told him that it was not too late to make amends and pay

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24. The house was filled with gifts meant as amends

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25. not to be confused with the terrorist group that made amends –

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26. I was thankful that Corey and I had made amends

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27. Amends obviates punishment and truly “makes up for”

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28. I have made my amends, and my values are good and true, and I like who I am

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29. While justice cannot bring back the deceased in murder cases it might be more important to have the perpetrator try to make amends to the victim’s family by working him in prison and taking moneys from his wages there to pay the family, crime victim compensation, rather than just have him serve time as a punishment (retribution)

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30. ” She did not fully believe in Mary-Anne’s God but she felt the older woman’s plea to make amends before it was too late was simply common sense based on bitter experience

31. I would make international apologies for interdicting electrical and water and sewer facilities wherever we did on the hunt for bad guys in any homes in these war zones at any time during our assault on their lands, and I would offer lots of goats by commanders personally to people in villages where civilian population was hurt (or make amends otherwise suitable to the people injured)

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32. but for thousands of years we cried unto you to make immaculate amends!

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33. The goings on of Antioch was no worse for wear because of my arrival, for I’d made amends to all that I hurt with my shenanigans, and now awaited the eastern sky to announce itself with new beginnings, so I could once again head in the northwest direction

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34. Be careful with amends

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35. Is there any way in which I can make amends for our gross insensitivity? He frowns deeply, but his expression stays just as stoic, still with the same hint of contempt

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36. How pleasant it is to meet a single saint now for a few short hours! How it cheers and refreshes us, like snow in summer or sunshine after clouds! What, then, will it be when we shall see an enormous company of saints, without a single unconverted sinner to spoil the harmony, all men and women of faith, and none unbelievers, all wheat and no chaff, "a multitude which no man can number"! Surely the "many" we shall see in heaven will make ample amends for the "few" that we now see upon earth

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37. When our gracious Queen at the end of the Crimean war came forward in front of the Horse Guards, and with her own royal hands gave the Victoria Cross to the gallant soldiers who had earned it, that public honour made rich amends for all that those soldiers had gone through

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38. However, the Brahmans, as though to make amends for the sins of their forefathers, strived hard to clear the social debris that Brahmanism had left on the Indian soil

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39. ‘I think you should try to make amends with her

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40. When man puts the rules and the systems, before long he changes and amends a part of them for the defects of deficiency that appear to him in them or for being insufficient to fufill the age’s requirements

41. She attempted to make amends

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42. amends for his parenting errors

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43. ’ Then she embraced her and made amends by telling her how fond she was of her and how much she loved her

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44. He was showing an interest in affairs of state and wanted to be there when Bradford was forced to make amends

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45. Lawrence in order to make amends for the destructionby Spanish artillery of a church that bore his name

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46. Must there be so much explaining? It was because I thought I was making amends that way for having, though unconsciously, led you to fancy you cared for me last year

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47. Cookham with the intention of trying to make amends, he was just going to say something amiable when she startled him by suddenly exclaiming, "I really don't understand how men can bring themselves to do such dreadful

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48. Since then there had been no intercourse with Glambeck, and the Baroness did not know of the satisfactory turn things had taken at the parsonage till on Christmas Eve, from her gallery in church to which she and the Baron had decided to return on the greater festivals as a mark of their awareness that Herr Dremmel desired to make amends, she beheld during the drawn-out verses of the chorale Ingeborg drop sideways on the seat in her pew below and remain motionless and bunched up, her hymn-book pushed crooked on the desk in front of her, and her attitude one of complete indifference to appearances

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49. Tussie tried to make amends for having obstructed her plans by exerting himself to the utmost to entertain the children as far as decorum allowed

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50. As for Emma, she was hunted out by that detective who travelled down into Somersetshire with the fugitives and who had already been so useful to the Prince; and Priscilla, desperately anxious to make amends wherever she could, took her into her own household, watching over her herself, seeing to it that no word of what she had done was ever blown about among the crowd of idle tongues, and she ended, I believe, by marrying a lacquey,--one of those splendid persons with white silk calves who were so precious in the sight of Annalise

51. Trying to recover and make amends for the slip so as not to cause further offence Nikko rushed on: “What I mean is you’re so different

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52. He wouldn't know as he's never made amends with a girl before

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53. He never said it, but he had made amends for leaving her to twist in the wind by convincing the Allies that they needed to change their ways towards her people as he promised he would

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54. "You have chosen your fates, and only your blood will make amends! Oblivion take you!"

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55. When Karl returned to England, he was going to turn up at Peter’s house, and for better or for worse try to make amends with the lad

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56. I only hope that my final act might serve to make some amends for my previous actions

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57. Making amends would be a lot easier if she had always been The Victim

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58. It is the author’s emphatic and unequivocal belief that there comes a time in everyone’s life where we all have a chance to make amends in this life, to start afresh, to put behind us any suffering we have caused others, to move on and begin a new life in relational acceptance, love, compassion and reconciliation

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59. But also for people who for some reason are unable to make the real changes, that are unable to live in and with relational love, compassion and reconciliation, so there will be a time when everyone has a chance to make amends when face to face with ‘God’ the Creator

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60. at ease with my fellows and determined to make amends

61. • They could become remorseful and see the error of their ways, try to make amends with family and friends, and try to resolve to either never drink again or to seriously check the amount of alcohol consumed – New Year's resolutions abound but very few are pursued for more than a few days / weeks

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62. If it wos so, which I still don't say it is (for I will not prewaricate to you, sir), let that there boy keep his father's place, and take care of his mother; don't blow upon that boy's father--do not do it, sir--and let that father go into the line of the reg'lar diggin', and make amends for what he would have undug--if it wos so--by diggin' of 'em in with a will, and with conwictions respectin' the futur' keepin' of 'em safe

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63. termed the first and fondest wish of his heart, "that his affection might make her some amends for the cruelty and injustice she had endured," inspired a

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64. "Dear Edward!" she cried, "this is a moment of great happiness!--This would almost make amends for every thing?"

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65. His opinion, however, made some little amends for his delay, for though acknowledging a very unexpected and unpleasant alteration in his patient, he would not allow the danger to be material, and talked of the relief which a fresh mode of treatment must procure, with a confidence which, in a lesser degree, was communicated to Elinor

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66. and I believe I may say that since the first half year of our foolish--business--this is the only letter I ever received from her, of which the substance made me any amends for the defect of the style

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67. As far as I can see, it will be your chief diversion hereafter; unless Linton make amends for other losses: and your provident parent appears to fancy he may

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68. That noon he sat down to dinner with us, and received a heaped-up plate from my hands, as if he intended to make amends for previous fasting

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69. some amends in one shape or the other

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70. Bertuccio made amends, however, by loading the ante-chambers, staircases, and mantle-pieces with flowers

71. He realized he was glaring at Theodoric, and made amends hastily, adding:

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72. Carruthers, I think that you have done what you could to make amends for your share in an evil plot

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73. "In that case, your Grace, since you have yourself stated that any unhappiness in your married life was caused by his presence, I would suggest that you make such amends as you can to the Duchess, and that you try to resume those relations which have been so unhappily interrupted

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74. As we went up, Louisa whispered me "that she had conceived a strange longing to be satisfied, whether the general rule held good with regard to this changeling, and how far nature had made him amends, in her best bodily gifts, for her denial of the sublimer intellectual ones; begin, at the same time, my assistance in procuring her this satisfaction

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75. After that, I started making amends to others in my life

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76. "Then—oh! how shall one describe what took place then—when the full exuberance of the majority and the full reaction of the minority united to make one great wave of enthusiasm, which rolled from the back of the hall, gathering volume as it came, swept over the orchestra, submerged the platform, and carried the four heroes away upon its crest?" (Good for you, Mac!) "If the audience had done less than justice, surely it made ample amends

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77. Amends, is the word Bill W

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78. Maybe he’s supposed to use his own silence to wrench from Daddy the amends he wants, but all he gets is Daddy’s cleared throat, this cartilaginous tic that was always annoying as hell

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79. I feel with her, somehow, and if I could make any amends to the poor lad, instead of bearing him a grudge for the harm he did us, I should be glad to do it

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80. Lydgate's ear had caught eagerly her mention of the living, and as soon as he could, he reopened the subject, seeing here a possibility of making amends for the casting-vote he had once given with an illsatisfied conscience

81. Ladislaw, to make amends for the deprivation which befell your mother

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82. Bulstrode did not wish to go nearer to the facts than in the phrase "make some amends;" knowing that her husband must understand her

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83. Then I gave him a last choice and a fair one: to renounce both Mordor and his private schemes, and make amends by helping

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84. The least you can do in amends is to tell me what is afoot

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85. I told Joe all of that, and I did my best to make amends

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86. “So I thought ahead and prepared a peace offering, a little gift to make amends for my doubts about you

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87. Only wish to make my amends

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