Sentence for past | Use past in a sentence

Past in a sample sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use past in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for past.

• Past twelve! (8)
• It is past midnight. (8)
• It was past sundown. (8)
• Say five past eleven. (8)
• The past was nothing. (4)
• She was past all that. (8)
• But we are past sighing. (10)
• It is almost past belief. (4)
• The past days writhed in him. (10)
• The night went past as a year. (10)
• Emily perceived the crisis past. (8)
• Apthorp.—The Opera, Past and Present. (3)
• A barge or two went past laden with hay. (2)
• Lahee.—Pianists of the Past and Present. (3)
• She was conscious only of a struggle past. (10)
• His youth uprising called his age the Past. (10)
• That filmy past is diaphanous on heaving ribs. (10)
• It was a fine heat; neck-and-neck past the Stand. (10)
• Swithin brushed past, but Boleskey caught his arm. (8)
• You have been hearing imputations of his past life? (10)
• The fact is, I cannot kill the past, and I would not. (10)
• It floated past through the archway, toward those eyes. (8)
• It was past nine and dark when they reached Dowdenhame. (8)
• They sidle past Ivy, and also sit down under the window. (8)
• The Countess was past the effort to attempt to stop him. (10)
• Look with spirit past the sense, Spirit shines in permanence. (10)
• And there was Helen, whom he had come to love in the past year. (13)
• He would never speak of these, though he often spoke of the past. (9)
• Pierson was conscious of Gratian walking past him out of the room. (8)
• Ah, what a background is the present when we have the past to the fore! (10)
• It was a shock when, pulling out his watch, he saw it was well past three. (8)
• Time, that sounded in her ears, as it kindled no past, spoke of no future. (10)
• For three weeks the resolution not to regard him as of the past was general. (10)
• They were astonished at breakfast by seeing Sir Lukin ride past the windows. (10)
• Their way was partly up the quay of the Main, past a barrack full of soldiers. (9)
• It can seem to lean back on the Past; it can seem to be amorous of the Future. (10)
• The world seemed inhabited only by quick, soundless wraiths as one trotted past. (8)
• The stroke had indeed slipped past their defences into the very wood of their tree. (8)
• She had the option of lying down and floating quietly into the day, all peril past. (10)
• As they were parting, Beauchamp perceived his old comrade Jack Wilmore walking past. (10)
• She did not answer, looking past him at the door; and Keith heard a key in the latch. (8)
• Bianca, by the empty fireplace, watched a shower of rain driving past the open window. (8)
• Prince, the President of the Bank of England, at the court of Louis for five years past. (18)
• I have really for some time past, for at least these three months, cared nothing about him. (4)
• A little bat kept flying past; and behind the copper-beech the moon was shining on the lake. (8)
• We ought to have left the past alone; we shall only mar our memories of all these beautiful places. (9)
• He could afford to smile now at his past discomfort, having no longer the sense of duty unfulfilled. (8)
• He turned, and Gyp thought he was really going; but he stopped and came back past the line of the window. (8)
• Open-mouthed millers stared at us as we swept past their groaning floats, throwing up spray like so many yachts. (20)
• Perhaps, if you desire, she will give you the explanation herself, since the whole matter now belongs to the past. (12)
• On the last night of her life this old man of past ninety carried her in his arms up a flight of stairs to her bed. (10)
• If it were not for what happened in the past I might like some time to write a story on the same lines in the future. (9)
• If, as we find, we are always in debt to the past, we should determine that the future is in our debt, and draw on it. (10)
• Through the long window a little river of light shone out on the veranda tiles, and, flowing past, cut the garden in two. (8)
• She planned to get there at half past nine, and having eaten a sort of breakfast at the station, went forth into the town. (8)
• The groaning oak slipped open, pushing them forward, and an apparition glided past, soft as the pallid silver of the moon. (10)
• The idea lasted while a turning in the walk concealed him from their view; the turning past, he was immediately before them. (4)
• It seems like my past life laughing at me, that my old friend should have come here in Italy, to wear the detestable uniform. (10)
• The General punctiliously avoided glancing at the windows during the passage past them, whether in his wild career or on foot. (10)
• I was under the delusion that I had grown to be past backbiting: and that no man could stand before me to insult and vilify me. (10)
• Sneaking past, in this sweet night, which stirred in one such sentiment, that ghoulish cur was like the omnivorousness of Nature. (8)
• The dim little passage led past two grimly closed doors painted rusty red to two half-open doors with dull glass in their panels. (8)
• Barclugh felt the blood mount to his hair as Mollie came up and rode past and smiled roguishly at her lover as she distanced him. (18)
• The Hamlet of Fechter, which rose ghostlike out of the gulf of the past, and cloudily possessed the stage where the Hamlet of Mme. (9)
• This syndicate practice has, within the past ten years, made New York a veritable journalistic provider for the rest of the nation. (16)
• Two letters out of that little budget of the past, with a far cry between them, had awakened within her certain sentimental longings. (8)
• The Rector looked at her, but did not speak; then abruptly he brushed past her in the doorway, hurried into his study and locked the door. (8)
• The past of a bitterly humiliated Aminta was a garden in the coming kiss of sunset, with that godlike figure of young manhood to hallow it. (10)
• In the early morning a boat-load of natives rowing up-stream past our camp was immediately challenged by the guard, and ordered to come ashore. (20)

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Definition of past:

• past, past, pa.p. of pass. | adj. gone by: elapsed: ended: now retired from service: in time already passed. | prep. farther than: out of reach of: no longer capable of. | adv. by. | the past, that which has passed, esp. time.(0)

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