Example sentences for: passage

How can you use “passage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A tender passage from the back of a can of Edge Pro Gel.

  • Johnson's survival, combined with the passage of 100 years, made impeachment, by the time of Watergate, seem like an altogether unlikely scenario--the equivalent, as historian Stanley Kutler has written, of a nuclear first strike.

  • In Richard Conniff's urbane account of travelers' putdowns of some of the great and not so great cities of the world [XIV,3], he quotes a splendid passage from Dr. Samuel Johnson's poem on London, which culminates with the words, “Here falling houses thunder on your head, / And here a female atheist talks you dead.”

  • With passage of the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950, GAO as a whole shifted to comprehensive auditing of government agencies.

  • In the French engineer Charles Joseph Minard's 1861 encapsulation of Napoleon's Russian campaign, for example, a compact space revealed the diminishing size of the army, its day-to-day geographical location, the direction of its route, the passage of time, and the gradual drop in the temperature.


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