How to Use transgress in a Sentence

transgress

verb
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  • There are legal consequences for companies that transgress the rules.
  • He who transgresses must seek forgiveness.
  • Black Image Center, in a sense, is a way to transgress all of these things.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
  • The bad news is that isn’t stopping him from transgressing them.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • When the lights go out in the Colonies' living spaces, women can transgress.
    — refinery29.com, 16 May 2018
  • Notably, the person must be aware of having transgressed a norm.
    — Annette Kämmerer, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Half a century after her death, Lee is still transgressing in the world of men.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2017
  • For me, that's proof that talking about love is transgressing, even nowadays.
    — Billboard Brazil, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Harvard has proven that there is an oppressive force to transgress.
    — Jeff Yang, CNN, 6 June 2017
  • Ghosts transgress binaries in all sorts of ways—life and death, presence and absence, comfort and grief.
    — Nell Stevens, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2022
  • If Mr Lovejoy and Mr Nobre are right, that could be disastrous—once the tipping-point is transgressed, much of the rest of the forest could follow in just a matter of decades.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Let those who have transgressed, for now, tell their stories only to each other, perhaps over drinks at a posh place in a lesser Hampton.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Rael, an architect, explores the area near the border fence outside El Paso with an eye tuned to reimagining the space around him and plotting ways to transgress it.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Through it all, Chicagoans went to the movies, usually to escape the realities of the day, sometimes to transgress a little or to see what everybody was talking about.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • But the word still pinpoints that which transgresses human decency.
    — New York Times, 23 May 2018
  • Vietnam stands out of the crowd, meeting six of the well-being targets while transgressing only two planetary boundaries.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Cohler: Which raises the question of to what extent him transgressing these boundaries is deliberate or not.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 July 2018
  • Meanwhile, the ruling Communist Party is again telling members that atheism remains a core value, not to be transgressed.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
  • But others wondered if McMaster had transgressed a moral boundary.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Politics, for example, cannot shed light on why employees are willing to transgress and endanger their job security yet may fail to go to the polls and vote.
    — Caterina Bulgarella, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment.
    — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Nonetheless, to act violently on the basis of such fictions – and to transgress against the humanity of others for nothing at all – is perhaps the most nihilistic act of them all.
    — Ani Kokobobo, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The spectacle of strong men transgressing norms in service of their own moral codes will be less and less appealing, and television and movies will pull back from pro-machismo stories with fascist undertones.
    — Slate Staff, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Ocean’s 8 doesn’t much deviate from this formula; man transgresses, man must suffer.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 June 2018
  • Wenger felt Pardew had been a little too confrontational in his joy and refused to shake hands, thus transgressing the code himself, making for an ugly, undignified afternoon all around.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2016
  • Social boundaries and the importance of transgressing them have long fascinated Roy.
    — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • Anyone who transgresses that norm by refusing to follow traditional gender stereotypes is viewed askance and, in small and large ways, treated as an outcast.
    — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2019
  • In seemingly trying to talk in generalities about or around Sutton, Snyder lapsed and transgressed into one of the most personal of areas.
    — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity.com, 2 June 2017
  • Revision can be retrospectively kind to artists, especially to those who transgress the societal mores of their day.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Yet, unlike other norms Trump has transgressed, this is one many progressive Trump critics apparently want Democrats to join the president in dismantling.
    — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2019

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