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rub with a circular motion
wipe the blackboard
He passed his hands over the soft cloth -
bypass
He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible -
travel across or pass over
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day -
fly over
The plane passed over Damascus -
make a passage or journey from one place to another
Some travelers pass through the desert
The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs
How To Use pass over In A Sentence
- Its concern with celebrating femininity encourages it to pass over more of traditional psychology's gender biases than egalitarian feminist psychology does.
- I pass overexercised and neglected wives and girlfriends as they speed-walk in pairs or jog alone with only their iPods for company. Good-Bye To All That
- The new highway will pass over the road beside our village.
- Wizards, fairies, elves, trolls and gnomes everywhere fell as the magical bird made its final pass over the land, taking with it the power it had once possessed.
- Numerous persons with only a few Negroid traits annually pass over and are ab-sorbed into the dominant Caucasoid population.
- It's covered parking directly connected to the landside terminal by an overpass over the airport pickup/drop-off lanes.
- (Let me again remind our readers that the rhetorical figure I so much enjoy using is called preterition, as in: "If I were as mean as my opponent, I would remind him that his mother sold not only homemade cakes to her male customers, but, being a gentleman, I will pass over that fact.") OUPblog
- The archways and entrances on the town's streets are marked with limestone blocks for cartwheels to pass over, all worn with the passage of time, each archway unique in the shape and size of its own blocks.
- Air rising to pass over the mountains cools and the water vapour condenses into cloud, rain and, if it is cold enough, snow.
- Before heading for the coast I made a pass over Mt Caburn and had a look down into the quarry at the east side of it.
