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How To Use in passing In A Sentence

• And so he had grown in the warmth of his parents 'love, trained in what we call outdoor sports, but which are life itself to the Arab, until at fourteen no one could surpass him in running or horsemanship or spear-throwing, whilst with rifle or revolver he could clip the hair off the top of a man's head, the which strenuous accomplishments he balanced in passing his leisure moments in the gentle arts of verse-making and even music, in spite of the latter being condemned by religion; also did he learn to converse in foreign tongues. Desert Love
• He only mentioned his work in passing.
• [422] Note in passing that this marks the beginning in general of the universal chronography of history, and consequently of the general Christian outlook upon the entire course of human history. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
• A V-shaped skein passing overhead with a cacophony of honks floating down still epitomizes wildness and freedom for many people.
• He cocks his leg and pees against the cafe's sandwich board sign, then darts under the cafe tables and in passing smells the trouser leg of a business man.
• Mentioned in passing is the kids 'multi-racial background: Dad is black, mom was white. 'Pyramid': It's another towering Riordan tale of mythology
• We note in passing that the timescale of the peptide backbone fluctuations which interconvert open and closed conformations is on the order of ~ 1 ns even for this minimalist elastin model.
• We can't go into all the details of that case now, I merely mention it in passing.
• Bloodless and many footed animals, whether furnished with wings or feet, move with more than four points of motion; as, for instance, the dayfly moves with four feet and four wings: and, I may observe in passing, this creature is exceptional not only in regard to the duration of its existence, whence it receives its name, but also because though a quadruped it has wings also. The History of Animals
• The army is only mentioned in passing.