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EN[pɑːs] [pæs] [-æs] [-ɑːs]
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    Examples of pass in a Sentence

  • Examples of pass
    1. I have little doubt that if President Obama’s economic recovery plan were for Iraq, Republicans would pass it without flinching because, of course, anyone who balked would be considered antipatriotic.
    2. to pass into the arch of a bridge
    3. The different navigations she had to pass through for this purpose were such that only an independent method of propulsion would be available.
    4. A general law has been laid down by van Gehuchten and Cajal, that all nerve impulses are axipetal, that is, they pass towards the attachment of the axon, by which they leave the body of the cell.
    5. Congress is looking to pass a bet-exchange law.
    6. The government claims it will call an election if this bill does not pass. Is it truly ready to do so, or is it bluffing?
    7. Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.
    8. One man does not pass: John Cornelius Foley, a 6-foot-2, lumbering slab of damaged Irish-American age 57 years this May. He limps slowly, his right leg below the knee as knotty and bulbed as an old root.
    9. Bent twice sent efforts wide of the far post after cutting in from the left, Wellbeck missed his kick from an inviting centre and failed to get on the end of a looping pass when six yards out.
  • Examples of passes
    1. After the assessment has been made the file passes to the tax collector.
    2. A man may be absorbed in the deepest thought, and his brow will remain smooth until he encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning, or is interrupted by some disturbance, and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.
    3. Johnny is such a little waver; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.
    4. If anyone passes to Smith, close him down.
    5. I also reconsulted the gastroenterologist, who now suggested a “capsule” endoscopy, in which the patient swallows a tiny camera that passes through the system so its images can be analyzed.
    6. Howsomever, a bullet passes between my arm--just here, and my side, and striked him dead upon the spot.
    7. Quarterback Sean Maguire, who has been the backup for most of the season, completed 16 of 29 passes for 164 yards with one interception in place of Everett Golson, who had experienced concussionlike symptoms and did not play Saturday.
    8. The derbendci, some two thousand families of Rumelia, acted as guards of mountain passes, bridges, and other strategic locations in exchange for tax relief and represent a transition from real fighters to auxiliary forces.
    9. The southern end of the Rockies plunges gradually along its sharp frontal downflex and passes into the Anton Chico monocline.
  • Examples of passed
    1. We passed the bong around until it was smoked out.
    2. Now that the dog has stopped barking, perhaps we can at last get some rest. ‎ — After three hundred years had passed, at last the vampire's soul was free. ‎
    3. I passed the test by the skin of my teeth.
    4. Therefore, in 1885 Congress passed the Major Crimes Act whereby jurisdiction in the case of seven major crimes (the list of crimes was later expanded) occurring on Native lands was placed in the hands of federal courts.
    5. You'd better throw that milk out: it's passed the expiry date.
    6. Segregationalism is being much carried out. Patient having passed through pneumonic deliriums, is now comatic and in articulo mortis.
    7. In this solid account of the calamitous effect of dry utopianism on New York City, Lerner explains how the Prohibition amendment was passed and why its execution failed.
    8. There are currently 15 OT levels available, although to date no Scientologist has ever passed beyond OT8. The teachings that pertain to these levels are strictly confidential, although on occasion a few ex-Scientologists have attempted to divulge them.
  • Examples of passing
    1. Alonso's second place moves him into a tie on points at the head of the championship with Sebastian Vettel, who was sixth in his Red Bull, passing Button, then Hamilton and finally Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg in quick succession in the closing laps.
    2. Would you like to buy some roses for the little lady? 2007, Letticia, Body Worship, page 192 Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.
    3. Shall we inform the next of kin of his passing?
    4. The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
    5. He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool. ‎
    6. These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews
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