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Example sentences for: passive

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

USA Today 's Mike Clark calls the coming-of-age story set at an orphanage in 1940s Maine "passive but passable."
This enforces a passive interpretation of archaic or rustic flavor-- though it appears to be neither a quotation nor a truly historical echo from the wretched time when women could suffer death at the stake for witchcraft.
, the HHS web site for its administrative simplification initiative), but were much less common than passive systems.
Back home, wives who at first seem passive and subservient are formidably powerful mothers and homemakers, driving their children to scholastic success through “examination hell. ”
Women went from being active to passive participants in the rites of beautification.