Example sentences for: passed

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

  • After meeting with Atta in Berlin in January 2001, Binalshibh had spent much of the spring of 2001 in Afghanistan and Pakistan, helping move the muscle hijackers as they passed through Karachi.

  • He and his party learned the hard way that they were better off cooperating with Democrats on things the country wants, and trying to share the credit--hence the recent flurry of legislation passed with bipartisan support: welfare reform, health-care portability, and the minimum-wage increase.

  • It is not the source of billy , a Scottish dialect word for a milk pail, nor does it have anything to do with the Queensland Aboriginal word bung dead, which passed into Australian pidgin in the 1840s and which developed by the 1880s the application bankrupt, as in the bank's gone bung .

  • The $385 billion compromise measure, which President Clinton has agreed to sign, passed 296-135 in the House and 74-24 in the Senate.

  • The House passed compromise gun control legislation.


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