sass
noun
stewed fruit; fruit sauce.
sassing
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present participleof sass.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Jennie, Rosé, Jisoo and Lisa easily nailed a mix of Coachella cool and K-pop razzle-dazzle, stomping and sassing beneath a towering temple roof and making the most of the gigantic stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Lee steals every scene she's in, whether she's wordlessly transfixed by pulling a thread taut between her fingers or sassing a religious game player.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2021
In the course of sassing its forebears by burlesquing their excesses and teasing out their subtexts, the show hoots at the clichés of pop fiction and real life even as it indulges them.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2018
“If you took a family photo right now, you got Grandma with an oxygen tank, probably sassing the photographer.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2016
Billington was not among the company of saints, to put it mildly; within six months of arrival he became the first European in America to be tried for sassing the police.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
