PASS in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for PASS, such as:
1. Such persons pass through these parts.
2. Having made this reservation, let us pass on.
3. We shall pass through France on our way to Italy.
4. The referee disallowed the try for a forward pass.
5. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PASS
pass
 v.  pass time in a specific way
 v.  throw (a ball) to another player
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But let us pass on; these are such common things as not to be worth mentioning.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
2  We shall pass through France on our way to Italy.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXI
3  When he descended from the scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw aside to let him pass.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
4  He liked to pass an hour or two there, trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into which he dropped seeds.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
5  The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
6  The opening was now large enough to allow him to pass.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
7  By the way, when you return, my friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
8  Such persons pass through these parts.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
9  O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass from poetry to prose.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
10  Any one who had seen these two pass would have had pity on them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
11  It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
12  Having made this reservation, let us pass on.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
13  The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad details.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
14  Towards two o'clock, almost invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full speed along the Boulevard de l'Hopital.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
15  It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve is an old street, and that a posting-chaise does not pass through the Rue des Postes once in ten years.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He said his goodbyes knowing that a long time would pass before he would see his child again.
2  Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not.
3  I caught him a lap later, and although I could pass him I could not shake him off.
4  You will only pass your exams if you really apply yourself.
5  Annie's the film critic for the local radio station, so she's got a free pass for all the cinemas in the area.
6  Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
7  Animals are such agreeable friends --they ask no questions, they pass no criticism.
8  I think we can safely assume that she will pass the exam.
9  Three things soon pass away; the echo of the woods, the rainbow, and woman's beauty.
10  When I got to the top of the ladder, please pass up the tools.
11  I pass through the summer which the winter and the equator are filled with joy rush toward you to like.
12  His wife's death brought a change to pass in his attitude toward religion.
13  This pass enables me to travel half-price on trains.
14  The referee disallowed the try for a forward pass.
15  That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass.