transgression

Example Sentences

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Are you trying to give people some kind of communal moment of transgression?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

Bondi’s latest ethical transgression has not yet made it to court, but it likely will.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

Which means any transgression in the next two races in Canada and Austria, and Verstappen will be forced to miss the next grand prix.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2025

They would not have an easy voyage home—some of the sailors themselves would steal joints and fragments of the saint, a transgression that, as they believed, caused them to suffer through storms and almost capsize.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

Usually, roommates noticed and warned each other; one day I caught my own watch transgression as we marched into the gym.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover