Example Sentences

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While Alison Roman's star-making chocolate chunk cookie recipe famously and transgressively calls for salted butter, you will find very few other accepted uses for the stuff from the pros.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2021

But they also used their bodies to transgressively maintain intimacy, such as at the 1987 kiss-in at St. Vincent’s hospital.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2020

Eilish is maybe the most transgressively popular artist in pop music today, with billions of streams and a Billboard 200 chart-topping LP, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2019

Donnersmarck grew up stringently Catholic, a choirboy, and he still attends Mass; as an artist, he frames his goals transgressively.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

Less transgressively but just as absurdly, Mr. Dimchev’s character participates in the post-show discussion while dead.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2015