Example sentences for: passed

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

  • The Post says that Bradley passed up a questioner's invitation to attack Gore for 1996 campaign-finance abuses.

  • She has passed along tape recordings that (allegedly) implicate the president by the words of a third party.

  • Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his wife: "This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my single vote from the greatest peril through which it has ever passed, though none but God can ever know the struggle it has cost me."

  • The law passed following several big corruption cases involving the burgeoning post-New Deal bureaucracy, and was aimed at the civil service.

  • In September 1999, the boards of all four programs passed a resolution approving the concept of merger.


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