Pass

//pɑːs//

"Pass" in a Sentence (95 examples)

"Pass me the salt, please." "Here you are."

In a town you may pass unnoticed, whereas in a village it's impossible.

If you study earnestly, you can expect to pass the exam.

You should study hard so that you can pass the examination.

You are expected to pass the exam.

Didn't you see a dog pass through the yard?

You have only to study hard, and you will pass the test.

You'll certainly pass the coming exam.

Your success depends on whether you pass the STEP examination or not.

Ten to one you can pass the test.

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They passed from room to room.

You will pass a house on your right.

We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.

John passed Suzie a note.

The torch was passed from hand to hand.

I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.

Waller […] passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.

He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.

The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.

20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.

Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven.

The Patriots passed on third and long.

pass counterfeit money

pass a person into a theater or over a railroad

When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.

He passed from youth into old age.

At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.

Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.

The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.

The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.

His grandmother passed yesterday.

He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.

Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.

The bill passed both houses of Congress.

The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.

But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.

When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.

He passed the bill through the committee.

Pass the happy news.

And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.

I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct

Father, thy word is passed.

And rising out of the fourth stage of deep meditation he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of space is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of space he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of though is along present.

Rather, he argues that 'within the zero-stage, all special affections have passed over into a general undifferentiated affection; all special consciousnesses have passed over into the one, general, persistently available background-consciousness of our past, the consciousness of the completely unarticulated, completely indistinct horizon of the past, which brings to a close the living, moving retentional past.'

What we call 'our' minds are events beginning with birth and ending with death, each again broken up into other events or mental states, into and out of which we are perpetually passing.

Their vacation passed pleasantly.

What will we do to pass the time?

To pass commodiously this life.

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

For, although Allan had passed his fiftieth year,[…], one had continued to think of him as a man of whipcord and iron, a natural source of untiring energy, a mechanism that would not wear out.

Please you that I may pass / This doing.

I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

You're late, but I'll let it pass.

Please you that I may pass / This doing.

It will soon come to pass.

[…] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.

It isn't ideal, but it will pass.

Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types.

[…] a situation where I had to know whether I could pass as a woman, and not tell anyone, and not be asked what I was doing dressed as a woman.

Like Olivia's aunts (described above), many Americans passed as white to resist the racially restrictive one-drop rule and the racial status quo of the Jim Crow era (Daniel 2002; Williamson 1980).

He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.

Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […]

I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.

This passes, Master Ford.

And striue to passe[…]Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art:

Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.

Mena[phon]. How now my Lord, what mated and amazd’ To heare the king thus threaten like himſelfe? Coſ[roe]. Ah Menaphon, I paſſe not for his threates, […]

As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.

mountain pass

"Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!

Followed two more weeks of marching,—rougher marching this time,—through the core of the lofty mountains that divide India from Central Asia; across the terrible Depsang Plains, seventeen thousand feet up; and over four passes choked with snow; till they came upon a deserted fort, set in the midst of stark space, and knew that here, indeed, was the limit of human habitation. Next day the work of exploration had begun in earnest.

the passes of the Mississippi

[The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]

My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.

The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.

I gained three passes at A-level, in mathematics, French, and English literature.

Everyone in the football stadium expected a pass play on third down.

A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.

a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass

Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.

Albon made hard work of the result. Starting fourth, he dropped back to seventh at the second start and had to fight his way back up, which he did with some excellent passes.

England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late, That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate.

What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?

Matters have been brought to this pass, that, if one among a man's sons had any blemish, he laid him aside for the ministry...

"What with Robert strolling out with publicans' daughters, and you having affairs with bicycle-shop keepers, the family is coming to a pretty pass."

This passes, Master Ford.

The finished dishes are placed on the pass ready to be collected by the waiter.

A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place.

Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.

Anyone want to trade passes?

If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.

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