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How to use transgression in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Transgression means a violation of a law, duty or commandment. Example: “I bet the consequences for any of these transgressions will be almost nothing.”

More sentences with transgression

  • I bet the consequences for any of these transgressions will be almost nothing.2026 July 5, u/Andee_outside, r/ColoradoSprings (Reddit post), archived from the original on 11 Jul 2026. From the entry prob
  • Its transgressions were great, and that meant it would have to fight hard for redemption.2021, Mark LaVoie, Reagan’s Soviet Rhetoric: Telling the Soviet Redemption Story, Bloomsbury Publishing, pages 96-97. From the entry Severus Snape
  • “Most transgressions deal with excessive compensation or grants used for a noncharitable purpose.”2009 February 12, Lynnley Browning, “For Investing With Madoff, Private Foundations Could Face Tax Fines”, in New York Times. From the entry noncharitable
  • Evidently George was to become the whipping-boy for his wife's transgressions.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry whipping-boy
  • But the most egregious transgression, at least in her opinion, is his postprandial habit of chomping and crunching on nuts.2020 May 25, Abby Ellin, “Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together”, in New York Times. From the entry postprandial
  • Urban exploration verges toward transgression without ever shattering it.2006, Dylan Trigg, The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason, page 191. From the entry urban exploration
  • To them, imagination—and Richter has plenty—is the ultimate transgression.1968 July 5, “Never Like Anyone Else”, in Time. From the entry climb the walls
  • The god who obliterateth sin, Ȧṭer-ȧsfet, obliterateth the transgressions which belong to Pepi in the presence of Khenti-merti in Sekhem.1911, E[rnest] A[lfred Thompson] Wallis Budge, “Appendix: Translations from the Pyramid Texts of Pepi I, Mer-en-Rā, and Pepi II”, in…. From the entry obliterate
  • The result is a proliferation of fanworks that explore narratives of transgression as fans play with the permissibility of Supernatural's supernatural world.2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on…. From the entry fanwork
  • Providing you don't input Ctrl-Alt-Del, no program should be crashable from the keyboard, especially as the result of such a minor transgression as this.1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 276. From the entry crashable
  • 'This you' reminds them that a little infographic or a hashtag doesn’t absolve them of past transgressions, and we see through the empty platitudes and insincere expressions of solidarity.2020 June 3, Jumi Akinfenwa, “'This You?' – How Black Twitter Turned Accountability Into an Art Form”, in VICE. From the entry this you
  • The memory of this moment is in fact a menace to institutional order because it suggests its fragility and reminds Hogwartians of the ever-present possibility of transgression.2018, Isabel Capeloa Gil, “Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility”, in Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines (Thamyris/Intersecting…. From the entry Hogwartian
  • As seen elsewhere in the North Sea, transgression continued in the Late Jurassic, causing shorelines to backstep, with coeval deposition of the Heno Formation clastics and Lola Formation claystones.2009, Kw Glennie, Petroleum Geology of the North Sea: Basic Concepts and Recent Advances. From the entry backstep
  • Although the numbers of controversial children were few, their finely tuned distinction between types of transgression concurs with the observation that the behaviour of controversials is highly skilled.1997, Michael Siegal, Knowing Children: Experiments in Conversation and Cognition (Essays in Developmental Psychology), 2nd edition, Hove…. From the entry controversial
  • He did not come to discuss the alleged transgressions of outmoded and archaic laws, because, he said, he already had all that from police and court records.1984 February 4, “Time On Boylove”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 4. From the entry bl
  • Without such periodic falls it is difficult to understand why the successive phases of transgression did not extend much further than areal plots of marine deposits indicate.1978, A. Hallam, “Eustatic cycles in the Jurassic”, in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, volume 23, Amsterdam: Elsevier…. From the entry stillstand

Meaning of transgression

  1. noun A violation of a law, duty or commandment.
  2. noun An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries.
  3. noun A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.

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Questions about transgression in a sentence

How do you use transgression in a sentence?
Transgression is used as a noun. For example: “I bet the consequences for any of these transgressions will be almost nothing.”
What is a short sentence with transgression?
“To them, imagination—and Richter has plenty—is the ultimate transgression.”
What does transgression mean?
Transgression means a violation of a law, duty or commandment.

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