Example sentences for: passing

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

  • Over drinks at the Four Seasons Hotel several years ago, he tried to help me by passing along some sex allegations that the Post wouldn't print.

  • The WSJ also mentions Asians only once in passing but does mention their scores.

  • Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.

  • A passing motorist gave much-needed helps after the accident.

  • Bradley believed in "passing and getting other people involved in the game," Reed argued on This Week . "That's what Bill's about, and what he'd do in his politics: getting everybody involved in the game."


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