sin
noun
transgression of divine law.
have been sinning
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present perfect progressiveof sin.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Guilty as I have been, sinning as I have sinned—tell me, was I alone in the wrong?
From The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman by Hough, Emerson
My heart impelled me to come," he said; "to forsake my country and its cause would have been sinning against my conscience.
From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund
