Example sentences for: passes

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

  • Scarcely a day passes without a front-pager on AOL or another local Netrepreneur made good.

  • is a striking countermelody to the junk that now passes as Top-40 rock" (Christopher John Farley, Time ). After years on the indie scene, the band is now receiving praise everywhere from Rolling Stone to Entertainment Weekly , whose Will Hermes asks, "Is Sleater-Kinney the greatest rock & roll band in America?"

  • Driving home at the end of the evening, he passes the spot where he parked for his quickie and sees that it's surrounded by police cruisers and yellow crime-scene tape.

  • At the park’s eastern exit, you’ll see where geologist James Hector, member of an 1858 expedition mapping the major passes through the Rockies, was kicked senseless by a pack horse — thus the name of the pass.

  • Steinem and others in her camp, such as Backlash author Susan Faludi, argue there is no inconsistency between their support of Clinton and condemnations of Packwood and Thomas: Unlike Clinton, they argue, Packwood and Thomas interpreted "no" as "yes" and repeated their unwelcome advances (although most of Packwood's alleged passes were single tries).


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