Example Sentences

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Consider what Christianity, at its core, actually does: It transgresses and disrupts.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

The Lib Dem leader said "we need to know... where any MP transgresses the rules".

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

But the idea that because an opponent transgresses a norm the standard no longer applies to anyone is a perversion of principle.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2022

“How do you know who you are when your primal love bond is formed with someone who then transgresses and violates it?”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2021

You see, the rule I most strictly enforce is that when the party of the other part transgresses, I never sit with him in a conservatory again.”

From A Daughter of the Vine by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn