Example sentences for: passive

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

  • Clinical decision support takes many forms - including passive display of information such as the last digoxin level and potassium in a patient receiving digoxin; reminders - for example, that a mammogram is due; alerts - that the hematocrit is falling rapidly or that the patient has an allergy to the prescribed drug; and guidelines - suggestions about orders in a patient with a suspected myocardial infarction.

  • While studies in animals [22] and humans [23] have failed to find a protective effect of antibodies to CWPS or its components, a recent study showed that passive transfer of human IgG against phosphorylcholine, a component of CWPS, could protect mice against invasive pneumococcal infections [24].

  • Turning to the CIA, Clarke warned that its bureaucracy, which was "masterful at passive aggressive behavior," would resist funding the new national security presidential directive, leaving it a "hollow shell of words without deeds."

  • He's no longer practicing passive resistance in the middle of a food fight.

  • While the ability of passive or vaccine-induced anticapsular antibodies to protect against pneumococcal disease is clear, less is known about the natural development of immunity to pneumococcal disease in unimmunized persons.


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