How to Use transgress in a Sentence

transgress

verb

• There are legal consequences for companies that transgress the rules.
• He who transgresses must seek forgiveness.
• Black Image Center, in a sense, is a way to transgress all of these things.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• The bad news is that isn’t stopping him from transgressing them.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
• When the lights go out in the Colonies' living spaces, women can transgress.
  — refinery29.com, 16 May 2018
• Notably, the person must be aware of having transgressed a norm.
  — Annette Kämmerer, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2019
• Half a century after her death, Lee is still transgressing in the world of men.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2017
• For me, that's proof that talking about love is transgressing, even nowadays.
  — Billboard Brazil, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2017
• Harvard has proven that there is an oppressive force to transgress.
  — Jeff Yang, CNN, 6 June 2017
• Ghosts transgress binaries in all sorts of ways—life and death, presence and absence, comfort and grief.
  — Nell Stevens, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2022
• If Mr Lovejoy and Mr Nobre are right, that could be disastrous—once the tipping-point is transgressed, much of the rest of the forest could follow in just a matter of decades.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• Let those who have transgressed, for now, tell their stories only to each other, perhaps over drinks at a posh place in a lesser Hampton.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2018
• Rael, an architect, explores the area near the border fence outside El Paso with an eye tuned to reimagining the space around him and plotting ways to transgress it.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019
• Through it all, Chicagoans went to the movies, usually to escape the realities of the day, sometimes to transgress a little or to see what everybody was talking about.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• As his longtime friend C. S. Lewis warned, human efforts to transgress nature end up amounting to the coercion of other men.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
• But the word still pinpoints that which transgresses human decency.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Vietnam stands out of the crowd, meeting six of the well-being targets while transgressing only two planetary boundaries.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2018
• Cohler: Which raises the question of to what extent him transgressing these boundaries is deliberate or not.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 July 2018
• Meanwhile, the ruling Communist Party is again telling members that atheism remains a core value, not to be transgressed.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
• The problem, in other words, is less about trans women transgressing conventional gender norms than about their picking the losing team.
  — Carol Hay, Fortune, 17 July 2023
• But others wondered if McMaster had transgressed a moral boundary.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• Politics, for example, cannot shed light on why employees are willing to transgress and endanger their job security yet may fail to go to the polls and vote.
  — Caterina Bulgarella, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• The problem is that cutting-edge comedy becomes difficult if a joke that transgresses someone’s idea of good taste means that the comedian is banned for life.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Oct. 2023
• Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment.
  — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
• Nonetheless, to act violently on the basis of such fictions – and to transgress against the humanity of others for nothing at all – is perhaps the most nihilistic act of them all.
  — Ani Kokobobo, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2021
• The spectacle of strong men transgressing norms in service of their own moral codes will be less and less appealing, and television and movies will pull back from pro-machismo stories with fascist undertones.
  — Slate Staff, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
• Ocean’s 8 doesn’t much deviate from this formula; man transgresses, man must suffer.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 June 2018
• Wenger felt Pardew had been a little too confrontational in his joy and refused to shake hands, thus transgressing the code himself, making for an ugly, undignified afternoon all around.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2016
• Social boundaries and the importance of transgressing them have long fascinated Roy.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 19 June 2017
• Anyone who transgresses that norm by refusing to follow traditional gender stereotypes is viewed askance and, in small and large ways, treated as an outcast.
  — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024