Example sentences for: passing

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

  • The hiking trail takes a good three hours, passing through rhododendrons, orchids, and laurel.

  • And college film societies can't fill the gap, since 16-millimeter prints are slowly passing out of circulation and 35-millimeter prints are too expensive for students to rent.

  • It turns out that we stay with her so she can gaze, in passing, at an apartment house--so that the camera can travel up to and through a window and come upon Septimus supine on a sofa, contemplating--what?

  • When first offered a chance to listen to the Tripp tapes, Isikoff refused, passing up what might have been the scoop of the decade out of concern that doing so would put him in an ethically compromised situation.

  • In the most famous passage in The Republic , Plato describes an underground cave where people are held prisoner in chains, unable to see anything but the shadows cast by figures passing outside; they mistake the shadows for reality.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast