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contrite sentence examples

  • Contrite heart.
  • At this of course the countess was very contrite.
  • Now they're trying to look contrite - and busy.
  • Contrite spirit.
  • The assembled company then threw slippers at his spread-eagle form, until his tears revealed that he was suitably contrite.
  • Contrite soul?
  • Of course, after these outbursts, i was truly contrite, - until the next time i felt myself losing total control.

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