Example sentences for: passages

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

  • Stoat flirted briefly with a form of writing that used only the definite and indefinite articles, but soon became disenchanted with such lifeless passages as:

  • of three, the mutant-to-wild-type ratio is only 10 -1after four passages.

  • Compare the eeriest passages of The Tin Drum with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's descriptions of the wintry death marches by means of which the Nazis killed off most of the remainder of their concentration-camp prisoners at the end of the war--exercises in pure surrealism, with skeletons moving slowly through a well-fed German countryside--and suddenly even Grass' fertile imagination seems impoverished.

  • A quick summary: In the early stages of Carver's career, Lish--a famous writing teacher and author in his own right--went far beyond the traditional role of fiction editor, cutting as many as half the words in a given story, rewriting entire passages, changing titles, and adding final lines himself.

  • Christopher's sister, Ann Casson, read the passages which linked up the various scenes.


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