transgress
verb (used without object)
were transgressing
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past progressiveof transgress.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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If Iyal ordered Chancer to do a wrong or dangerous thing, or to join him in reckless behavior, would Chancer recognize that they were transgressing?
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2012
A Mental Error The tram-car was hopelessly overcrowded, and several people, who had achieved the upper deck, were transgressing all regulations by standing.
From More Toasts by Marion Dix Mosher
Did that tender and merciful court ever suggest to those prelates who passed the Act in England for the burning of heretics that they were transgressing the sacred rights of conscience?
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
Her head was bowed almost against his shoulder and it did not occur to either of them that they were transgressing the most elementary laws of conventionality.
From The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Here he looked up as though the profligacy and degeneracy of the age were transgressing all bounds.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
