sin
noun
transgression of divine law.
is sinning
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present progressiveof sin (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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In his most squalid escapades, he knows that he is sinning and fumblingly seeks redemptive grace and the meaning of existence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some one, perhaps, who is sinning unsuspected, and, in her envy of another and purer one, gloats in the scandal which does not justly stain me.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred
Somewhere in this great, multitudinous mass of humanity he is sinning and sinning and reduplicating and extending the sin that you did.
From Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks by Brooks, Phillips
Will she ever waltz with him again, she wonders, and she feels, feels in her inmost heart, that she is sinning against her affianced husband in waltzing with him now.
From A Terrible Secret by Fleming, May Agnes
Hassenfratz dilapidates at home; Dumouriez grumbles and they dilapidate abroad: within the walls there is sinning, and without the walls there is sinning.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
