Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: repented
IPA transcription: [ɹɪp'ɛntɪd]
Usage examples
  • Then Sir Tristram repented him that he was not armed, and then he hoved still.
  • "No, captain," answered the sailor, "and I repented of my suspicion a long time ago!
  • He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he repented of his conduct.
  • In the impulse of the moment, I rose to open the door for her; and immediately repented having done so.
  • Those who had repented to the sending away of their sins, he would baptize with a holy power to send them away indeed.
  • She repented of her foolish curiosity, and cursed her desire of prying into the affairs of her brother and sister-in-law.
  • Hereupon Aristobulus repented of the great crime he had been guilty of, and this gave occasion to the increase of his distemper.
  • He told me he had been, at one time, a little wild, but surely he ought not to be condemned for that, after he had repented and reformed."
  • The princess soon repented of her act, and in despair destroyed herself, having first written a most tender letter to Tristram, sending him at the same time a beautiful and sagacious dog, of which she was very fond, desiring him to keep it as a memorial of her.
  • Although he was quite at ease in her presence, too much so, Mary sometimes thought, and strangely enough sometimes told him in a fit of short-lived, quickly repented anger that always set him laughing, yet there was never a word or gesture that could hint of undue familiarity.