Example Sentences

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The one who rewards you for trusting his trespasses.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2025

And yet Maxine is a good person, whose schemes and trespasses one does not quite forgive, but makes allowances for against hopeful future corrections.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024

The Bad River won a key victory last summer when a Wisconsin judge ruled that the company must shut down the portion of its pipeline that trespasses on the reservation by 2026.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2023

And can we afford to, when those trespasses are egregious and the danger of their repetition remains?

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022

The sign had surprised Carla since "forgive us our trespasses" was the only other context in which she had heard the word.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez