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    Use "amends" in a sentence

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    amends


    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


    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


    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


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


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


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


    7. There was no way to make amends


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


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


    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


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


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


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


    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


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


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


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


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


    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


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


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


    24. The house was filled with gifts meant as amends


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


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


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


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


    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)


    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)


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


    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


    34. Be careful with amends


    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


    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


    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


    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


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


    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


    42. amends for his parenting errors


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


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


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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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



































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    Synonyms for "amends"

    amends reparation damages indemnification indemnity redress restitution compensation retribution satisfaction consideration requital

    "amends" definitions

    a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury


    something done or paid in expiation of a wrong