make amends

Example Sentences

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Those that do so, he said in an interview, could expect his help to “make amends with the federal government and us.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I need peace, and I need an ending, and I need to make amends and have amends made to me.

From Literature

I’ll be back home in a couple of days, and we can make amends then.

From Literature

Others took issue with BAFTA’s delay in sending the ceremony’s host, Alan Cumming, to the podium to read what they deemed to be insufficient efforts to make amends: After Cumming explained that Davidson’s tics are involuntary, he said, “We apologize if you are offended tonight.”

From Salon

Declan Rice was making all these runs too, bursting forward to try to make amends for his mistake for Tottenham's equaliser, so there was all sorts going on.

From BBC