Sample Sentences for
trespass
(editor-reviewed)

trespass as in:  a "No Trespassing" sign

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  • He didn't think he'd mind if they trespassed in his beloved shop.  (source)
    trespassed = entered without permission
  • It's trespassing and malicious mischief.  (source)
    trespassing = entering another's property without right or permission
  • A wire fence had been erected along the north side of the building; on it a sign warned: NO TRESPASSING—Property of the Westing estate.  (source)
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  • Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?  (source)
    trespassing = entering another's property without right or permission
  • Papa didn't take too kind to trespass.  (source)
    trespass = someone entering his property without permission
  • So Pahom was well contented, and everything would have been right if the neighboring peasants would only not have trespassed on his cornfields and meadows.  (source)
    trespassed = entered another's property without right or permission
  • Stillman Rush flashed a killer smile at Sara, who was slowly chewing gum and glaring at the men as if they were trespassers.†  (source)
  • I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.†  (source)
  • The pretext was that they had evicted a trespasser.  (source)
    trespasser = someone who enters another's property without right or permission
  • said the good man; it seemed to me that he lived not well, for he brake his order for to wear a shirt where he ought to wear none, and who that trespasseth against our order doth not well.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She trespasseth" in older English, today we say "She trespasses."
  • For, when I dare not otherwise debate, Then will I sting him with my tongue smart* *sharply In preaching, so that he shall not astart* *escape To be defamed falsely, if that he Hath trespass'd* to my brethren or to me.†  (source)
  • NO TRESPASSING!  (source)
    TRESPASSING = entering another's property without right or permission
  • Villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands!†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd! Give me my sin again.  (source)
trespass = sin
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