Sentence for passing | Use passing in a sentence

Sentences with passing in them. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use passing in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for passing.

• There is a sound of goat-bells passing. (8)
• He hailed an open horse-cab which was passing. (8)
• Passing round the door, she fronted her father. (22)
• V We are passing through a period of transition. (16)
• A blackness passing to lividness crossed his face. (10)
• She astonished him by passing without another word. (10)
• Till very slowly he limped on, passing out of sight. (8)
• For the sake of a passing shadow, to give up substance? (8)
• He watched the deplorable objects passing on the pavement. (10)
• She had been passing through a strange time for weeks past. (8)
• The pony, passing over, struck him on the head with a hoof. (8)
• Soames could see his pale tongue passing over his darkish lips. (8)
• What was passing in that silent, living creature there so close? (8)
• This was on the pier, while he bowed and greeted passing figures. (10)
• To Mrs. Chump he bent, passing, and was pushed away and drawn back. (10)
• The excellent Sir Lukin was passing a great deal of his time in London. (10)
• The night of the Fifteenth comes; it is passing like an ordinary night. (10)
• A boor passing asked whether toll or tribute they were conveying to Werner. (10)
• She left her bicycle, and, passing through a gate, vanished among the trees. (8)
• And then he saw a street and endless people passing, turning to stare at him. (8)
• What was passing behind those pale rounds of flesh turned towards the posters? (8)
• Willoughby intercepted Mrs. Mountstuart as she was passing over to Dr Middleton. (10)
• She saw nothing in its passing, but everything backward, under haphazard flashes. (10)
• I got into a passing tram; it was five minutes to the West Bahnhof; I got out there. (8)
• The way she whiffed herself at that young pup in passing, the way her eyes slid round! (8)
• Their day is passing, and their type, not altogether for the advantage of the country. (8)
• And I had the feeling that his stare was passing through me, on its way to an unseen goal. (8)
• Shortly after, he was seen passing through the gates of the garden, accompanied by Rhoda. (22)
• To keep Fanny and the Bertrams from a knowledge of what was passing became his first object. (4)
• She usually talked of the spectres of Hollenbogenblitz Castle in the passing of the threads. (10)
• We set forth with the vague intention of passing the night somewhere above and near Ratisbon. (20)
• On the whole, it seems to me there are for all classes the means of passing the time agreeably. (19)
• He pushed his hands over his forehead and hair, and spied up dizzily at the slowly passing train. (8)
• While this was passing through his mind, he caught sight of Hughs lurking outside a public-house. (8)
• Passing into the picture-gallery, as it was still called, he saw Irene standing over by the window. (8)
• Beauchamp had a passing wish to land on the Norman coast, and take Jenny for a day to Tourdestelle. (10)
• Passing the mirror in the hall which was always rough with her, she had not courage to glance at it. (8)
• Then whisperings were heard passing among the ill-discerned forms, and the farmer went out to them. (22)
• She slid down off the table and, passing behind the cook, put her arms round those substantial sides. (8)
• He began passing his handkerchief over his face and hands, taking deep breaths to give him steadiness. (8)
• They endure it in passing, but they get home weary and cross, even after a twenty-mile run on the wheel. (9)
• And the sound in them the sound the dead hear when flowers are growing, and the wind passing through them? (8)
• Her disciplined husband signified an equal mixture of contrition and astonishment at the passing of time. (10)
• I could barely stand; and, on passing my hand upon my instep, perceived I had sprained my ancle in the fall. (6)
• Mr. Thompson wiped his forehead, as Brutes might have done after passing judgment on the scion of his house. (10)
• The rumours passing from mouth to mouth acquired, in the nature of them, sinister colours as they circulated. (10)
• No rebuke was uttered, and during her talk she observed intercourse passing between the eyes of the young men. (10)
• Crossing the veranda, and passing through an open window hung with silk curtains, Hart entered a cool dark room. (8)
• She is on her road somewhere, I dare say, and so, passing through Meryton, thought she might as well call on you. (4)
• A week later, passing the little street, I thought I would go in and tell him how splendidly the new boots fitted. (8)
• She reached the verandah and was passing in, but stopped at the sound of voices from the drawing-room to her left. (8)
• Then there was dust, too, as if the carrettieri had been passing in hundreds, so that the heat was almost unbearable. (10)
• It was still sleeping, drawing its tiny breaths peacefully, little dog-shivers passing every now and then over its face. (8)
• But he spoke, the pale young priest, the dark-robed tradition, the tonsured vision of an age and a church that are passing. (9)
• I have heard people passing by night in sleeping cities; some of them sang; one, I remember, played loudly on the bagpipes. (2)
• His quick dark face worked, his steel-grey eyes stared as though he were again passing through all these long-past emotions. (8)
• When he stepped out of the car he felt that increase of courage which comes to every man after safely passing through danger. (9)
• See that a man might want, did want, other friendships, even passing moments of passion, and yet could love her just the same? (8)
• But so vivid had that vision been that she stood at the window, panting for air, passing her hand again and again across her eyes. (8)
• He accepted with joy the theory of passing a week in the home of virtuous poverty, and the week began as delightfully as it went on. (9)
• And sitting lunchless in the hall of his hotel, with tourists passing every moment, Baedeker in hand, he was visited by black dejection. (8)
• While the car was passing in at one drive gate he heard the grinding sputter of a motor-cycle passing out by the other. (8)
• Only a quivering of the muscles of his forehead and the peering intensity of his gaze revealed something of what was passing within him. (12)
• It would have been nice, indeed, to be that water, never staying, passing, passing; or wind, touching everything, never caught. (8)
• The lady gazed softly over his head, letting her eyes drop a quiet recognition in passing; one or two of the younger gentlemen stared mockingly. (22)
• Indeed they did not figure at all, they shrank, they withered, they were husks, together with the others for whom she had known passing weaknesses. (8)
• He went on talking in the church porch, and murmuring softly some steps up the aisle, passing the pews of Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson and Lady Busshe. (10)
• What was the essential difference, between taking tribute of travellers passing on horseback, and collecting dues from travellers arriving by steamer? (9)
• He had, of course, sufficient rational feeling to be chagrined by calamity, but his dominant passion sucked sustaining juices from every passing event. (10)
• Colonel Barclay, the moustachioed horseman, who had spoken the few words to Robert in passing, now remarked that there was an end of the military profession. (10)

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