sin
noun
transgression of divine law.
were sinning
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past progressiveof sin.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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And the good parents who, throughout the later 18th century and the 19th, inflicted this stuff upon children, were sinning against the light.
From On The Art of Reading by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And wicked men were sinning In the midnight banquet halls, Forgetful of that sentence traced On proud Belshazzar's walls.
From Poems: Patriotic, Religious by Abram Joseph Ryan
And, second, even supposing I were sinning, it is your fault then, too; for it is clearly your duty to warn me.
From In Those Days The Story of an Old Man by Jehudah Steinberg
They seemed to know that they were sinning, or at least in danger, and Jill sneaked, sulky and snuffy, into a dark corner, where she glared defiantly at the hunter.
From Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac by Ernest Thompson Seton
