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.
• The bad news is that isn’t stopping him from transgressing them.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
• These are examples of norms that have to be followed and they’ve been transgressed.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 3 Aug. 2024
• Harvard has proven that there is an oppressive force to transgress.
  — Jeff Yang, CNN, 6 June 2017
• Notably, the person must be aware of having transgressed a norm.
  — Annette Kämmerer, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2019
• For me, that's proof that talking about love is transgressing, even nowadays.
  — Billboard Brazil, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2017
• Black Image Center, in a sense, is a way to transgress all of these things.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• When the lights go out in the Colonies' living spaces, women can transgress.
  — refinery29.com, 16 May 2018
• Half a century after her death, Lee is still transgressing in the world of men.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 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
• The film transgresses time to show how greed, faith, desire and the hunger for meaning repeat themselves.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
• But my way of dealing with that is doing something that transgresses death and making something that stays.
  — Todd Gilchrist, IndieWire, 24 June 2026
• But the word still pinpoints that which transgresses human decency.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2018
• 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
• Ocean’s 8 doesn’t much deviate from this formula; man transgresses, man must suffer.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 June 2018
• Right now, researchers can say that the biosphere boundary has been transgressed on almost all land surfaces, mainly due to agriculture.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2025
• There is, of course, power to be gained by a beautiful woman who is willing to transgress the boundaries of bodily modesty.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• But others wondered if McMaster had transgressed a moral boundary.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 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
• 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
• When my children transgressed in some minor way, Disney employees very gently corrected them.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 5 Mar. 2020
• According to Allen’s album, Harbour would’ve allegedly transgressed past the bounds of their open marriage.
  — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 22 Jan. 2026
• But not all cancellations are the result of transgressing fans’ expectations.
  — Jonah Engel Bromwich, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• Revision can be retrospectively kind to artists, especially to those who transgress the societal mores of their day.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 24 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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