Example sentences for: passively

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

  • Assistance to anti-Taliban groups and proxies who might be encouraged to passively resist the Taliban.

  • We no longer are in the position evoked by Auden, passively awaiting a connection with the outside world through the postman.

  • I am not sitting passively on the couch while gales of canned laughter blow over me or waves of fake blood wash over me.

  • Index funds, Miller pointed out, are passively managed, which is to say that they simply duplicate the S&P 500 in order to replicate the performance of the "market."

  • Jay McAniff of Aristotle says his firm relies on what is known as "permission-based marketing"--that is, it only uses information offered voluntarily, not the kind gained passively on the basis of "cookies" (click for Michael Kinsley's explanation of cookies).


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