How To Use Passing In A Sentence

So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room. Moderately Shocked
Their feud dates back almost two centuries with a level of enmity that has only gathered strength over the passing years.
The scene near the Chennai Kaliappa Hospital, on Tuesday was supremely ironical, and drew sharp reactions from tree lovers who were passing by.
Although the World Cup is all encompassing at the moment, when it comes to sport there is no more spine-tingling moment than when 65,000 fans at Murrayfield sing ‘Flower of Scotland’.
Now, moreover, with the nation in an economic downturn, is not the time to assert the urgency of passing referendum legislation.

They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
The political analyst Nikolai Petrov has described Mr. Putin's predicament using the chess term "zugzwang," in which a player sees only moves that will damage his position, and yet does not have the option of passing. NYT > Home Page
Their passing was sloppy, possession was given away too easily and balls were either spilled or over carried in promising attacks.
Overhead, a mewing cry announced the passing of a white-tailed sea eagle, which was being mobbed by agitated gulls.
The moon passing through the outer region of the Earth's shadow, known as the penumbra, will be visible from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia's west coast at Stars and Stripes
Nevertheless, CNN has talked to a "language analyst" who gets paid to "[analyze and catalogue] trends in word usage and word choice and their impact on culture," and they report that Obama was too "professorial," and now America is at grave risk of not passing its midterm exams on the oil spill. Obama Oil Spill Speech Criticized By CNN's Language Analyst For Not Being Moronic Enough [UPDATE]
And after rewinding the film and watching it without any adrenaline to threaten our objectivity, it became pretty clear that during this year of epic passing, San Francisco played one of the greatest defensive games in playoff history. OK, Now That Was a Defense
After all, the Divine is an all-encompassing entity.
Stopped at the Waikino Tavern and had a coldie - as always when I'm passing.
It followed as one consequence of these letters from Florence that Nora was debarred from the Italian scheme as a mode of passing her time till some house should be open for her reception. He Knew He Was Right
Catherine Street were largely ignoring shoplifting and simply passing its cost on to their customers.
Urinary incontinence is passing urine when you don't mean to because of partial or total loss of control of the bladder.
Man with just a passing twinge of shame.
Purposefully moraceous make money work from home, but the lintwhite unholiness was that the wildness sokoro was buried me surpassingly was a permanently in the pintado flyer skillet. Rational Review
Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
Any enlargement of the prostate (cancerous or benign) can cause problems with passing urine.
You argue against yourself, brother, and I find it to be more than passingly foolhardy.
Entering the village was like passing under an invisible triumphal arch, quite splendid.
A brief program with music and merriment begins the ceremony, then an honorary candlelighter lights his or her candle and starts passing it along through the crowd. Zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
He looks downcast, a frown passing like a cloud over his famously large forehead.
Her longings grew more varied and virulent with each passing year: raw pig meat, Hawaiian pineapples infeasible to procure in revolutionary Cuba, chewing tobacco, cockscomb stew. The Lady Matador’s Hotel
Their passing and movement took their opponents by surprise and they did the club proud. Times, Sunday Times
The same day's paper features a story "Is this a work of art or just any old iron?" about how the writer, broadcaster, doctor and polymath Sir Jonathan Miller asked a passing scrap metal merchant to remove a rusting bath from his front garden -- only to find his three metal sculptures had also been over-enthusiastically taken. Media
The designer goods are in there, but they must be ferreted out of mass quantities stacked on undifferentiated shelves in an encompassing sprawl.
They, on the other hand, were at their old game of sloppy passing and giving away possession.
Thousands of leaflets had been given to motorists passing through and 1,000 had been hand-delivered to addresses in the city centre.
The cameras will focus only on the judge passing sentence. Times, Sunday Times
the passing of winter
In time folk memory faded and with the passing of those who had lived through the events of 1903 the Gordon Bennett Race became an almost forgotten note in the annals of Irish motoring history.
Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much, or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave — but there's no reason to be in the passing lane. Robert Orben
On the way up, as they were passing along the westmost sector of the Eski line, one of our most promising young The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
Passing each one, he fingered their kilts and sporrans until he reached Sergeant Thomas Campbell and grew more inquisitive.
Grief is a powerful feeling, bereavement is as natural a life process as the passing of the seasons. Times, Sunday Times
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
I fear that bypassing the United Nations and demanding regime change by force instead of working toward peaceful disarmament is a dangerous step for our nation.
It is nice to catch glimpses of bumboats passing by while standing on Cavenagh Bridge.
She feels that life is passing her by .
He only mentioned his work in passing.
The crowd were so well behaved, without an intoxicating drink passing their lips.
The country was passing through a grave crisis.
When I arrived, I was standing outside a normal brick house, there were no witches passing by or broomsticks parked in the garden, so I felt brave enough to knock on the door, the door was answered by a lady not much older than me, I was in shock!
Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes! The Maids of Paradise
Miss Sullivan, who knows her pupil's mind, selects from the passing landscape essential elements, which give a certain clearness to Miss The Story of My Life
Part of all Christian faith is the claim that the church of Christ, in an encompassing sense, is indefectible.
I suspect it was the latter, because more and more people left with each passing inning.
He laments the passing of the tradition of European genre filmmaking.
Mr Pearce makes only passing reference to what is, for many, Walpole's outstanding monument: the magnificent Palladian house he built at Houghton in Norfolk.
Passing the exam gave me a real lift.
In a related discussion on Slashdot, solprovider points out that ICANN's new policy may also put an end to what Network Solutions describes as "domain kiting," where several (possibly related) companies keep passing domain registrations from one to the next by taking advantage of the free grace period, effectively preventing the domains from ever being available to the public. Is Domain Name Front Running About To Come To An End? - The Consumerist
He spent the afternoon with his buttonslide, Brasso and buffing cloths, and he could not have been smarter even on passing-out parade. THE OPEN DOOR
After the passing of his brother, Frank, Uncle Fletcher continued to work non-stop within the community, striving for better conditions and quality for his people.
You probably haven't noticed, but my surname bears a passing resemblance to a certain vulgarity.
By the end of that second year, I was handily passing my classes.
We know how tempting it can be to indulge in listening to or passing along a juicy rumor.
The week ahead looks changeable, with areas of low pressure passing to the north. Times, Sunday Times
The world of kitsch is in a certain measure a heartless world, in which emotion is directed away from its proper target towards sugary stereotypes, permitting us to pay passing tribute to love and sorrow without the trouble of feeling them. Roger Scruton on Beauty
Our love grows stronger with every passing year. Happy Valentine's Day, Baby.
We ambled by the water passing moorhens, ducks, geese, rabbits and squirrels.
We escorted them into the camp, passing the guards who had barricaded themselves into the sentry box. Times, Sunday Times
P. S: Happy belated birthday to Sub, congrats on passing your driving test, you know what to do next (* wink wink*). Babycartercl Diary Entry
Once more the evening sky is dark and the streets are empty, the silence broken only by the familiar rumbling bass from high performance stereos passing in the night.
A small piece, such as in that day was employed for the defence of castles, called a falconet, was elevated above the canoes, so that the shot, passing over the heads of their inmates, might take effect upon the woods along the shore. The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series
Hamnett does not believe environmental concern is a passing fad.
Bypassing the media seems to have been effective in converting voting intention.
In between are 11 pages of useful information, including dry facts and quirky anecdotes, encompassing every area of life.
The crowds which have been passing to and fro during the whole day, are rapidly dwindling away; and the noise of shouting and quarrelling which issues from the public – houses, is almost the only sound that breaks the melancholy stillness of the night. Sketches by Boz
The farmer said we were trespassing.
Smiling residents stroll along a cozy, old-fashioned street; the police chief stops and chats with passing motorists.
Instead, it sent cold water from the bottom of lake into the river via outlet pipes, bypassing the turbines.
His only accompaniment was the soft hiss of snow passing beneath his skis and the low whistle of the wind as it shaped the loose powder.
But the odds of passing the amendment are slim.
When the government is finally brought down, no one will mourn its passing.
For the second kind of Predestination places election, with regard to the end, before the fall; it also places before that event preterition, [or passing by,] which is the first part of reprobation. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
When she had approached near, I filled the main-topsail, and continued to yaw the ship, while she continued to come down, wearing occasionally to prevent her passing under our stern. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
Trueman's especial tragedy was to make public the bitterness that he felt at the passing of his youth.
The heavy-coated and mufflered man was walking quickly southward; he waved his umbrella to a passing cab, which, however, did not pull up. The Town Traveller
Some slips passing from the first and second ribs to the vertebral border of the scapula and supplied by the dorsal scapular nerve may be looked upon as belonging to the rhomboid sheet and therefore as variations of those muscles.
Alex and Rhena were all revved up with horsey mania, so around the city we clippety went, with our womenfolk waving to the passing trams.
He inevitably focused on his own concerns, with only a passing query about Jeff.
Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle. Little Dorrit
I suffer frequently from indigestion, incomplete evacuation, passing hard, foul-smelling stools and gaseous distension.
Am I to go about smiling and content with all this talk about you, passing from one idle gossip to another? Wives and Daughters
Passing on measly increases to savers isn't the only ploy banks have used to boost profits. Times, Sunday Times
We wish to express our deep regret over the passing of...
Commemorating the Crib means passing on the history of popular piety and religiosity.
The love they had shared, the love that renewed with each passing day and moments of togetherness had coalesced into a raging fury of hatred and contempt.
Jill plays his fetching daughter in charge of passing the collection plate.
Ferguson once coined the term "carousel" to describe Barca's dizzying passing game. The Seattle Times
Keep the defence tight, and when on offence, I want to see quick feet and fast passing.
One just wonders how much further matters would have gone if these public-spirited individuals not been passing by at that time.
The proportion of children passing Ordinary and Advanced level examinations is positively correlated with social class.
Trevelyan himself was present, bent with age, his musty gown fraying at the edges - emblematic, I remember thinking, of an old order passing.
The mechanism for passing the protocol information between coordinator and participant is not defined.
Softened by the events of the past week, affected by the melancholy beauty of the autumn day, Soames came nearer than he had ever been to realisation of that truth — passing the understanding of a Forsyte pure — that the body of Beauty has a spiritual essence, uncapturable save by a devotion which thinks not of self. To Let
After passing the huge sitting Golden Buddha of Wat Tubborn and later the cowboy-themed Chok Chai Farm, a center of agrotourism, we turn onto Phansuk-Kudkla Road. Shifting Gears
They played very confidently and are a good team with quick passing. The Sun
Since I moved to Calne 28 years ago the narrow part of Curzon Street has been the main bottleneck for traffic passing through the town centre.
Jessi opened her folder and pulled out various pieces of paper and pencils, passing several to each bed.
Television, in this sense, is the consummate egalitarian medium of communication, surpassing oral language itself.
Everybody and their mama is doing a documentary on Obama," he said during an interview for his new Sundance film "The Passing Strange. While He Supports Obama, Don’t Look To Spike Lee For Presidential Biopic » MTV Movies Blog
These complications may be minimized by passing all arthroscopic instruments through sturdy metallic sheaths to prevent multiple attempts at hip joint penetrance and perforations of the hip capsule.
The normal anionic charge barrier prevents protein molecules such as albumin from passing through the endothelium.
This is a brilliant book, encompassing themes way beyond the narrow confines of sport. Times, Sunday Times
Actually, its original coating was a strong, rusty umber, but the passing centuries had sapped the mineral pigment of its oxidic potency, leaving it a flat, dull rose, like a dance hall memory, and so thin that the original wood showed through it like the night sky through a canopy of fishnet. Skinny Legs and All
He nudged me to tell me someone passing.
The President made clear he did not want to see the steel quota bill go through because the United States was going forward on further trade liberalization and progress at the WTO administerial in Seattle; did not want to see us in a position where we were passing a law that would be inconsistent with the rules of the WTO. Press Briefing By Sandy Berger And Gene Sperling
She is more concerned, however, with the new generation of Scottish actors who have gone straight to Hollywood, bypassing the Scottish stage.
And don't forget the legal ramifications of passing trade secrets. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
He's like a doddering old man sitting in his horse and buggy, shaking his liver spot covered fist at passing automobiles.
The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
My escort explains that they are daman trails, in other words the trails worn by Turkoman raiders passing back and forth on their man-stealing expeditions, before their subjugation by the Russians. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
This hierogram is the symbol of the serpent, a circle with a snake passing through it, like a needle and thread.
Passing an amendment to end slavery and actually banishing involuntary servitude are two different things.
Europe and America after the French Revolution, and exceptionally there may be an instance of an individual passing from one class into another, analogously to the endosmose and exosmose of molecules, or, to use the phrase of M. Dumont, by a sort of "social capillarity. Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx)
Across the street, an equally small group of proponents of the measure continued cheering with each passing car that honked, seemingly unaware of the decision reached inside. Maryland House derails bill that would legalize same-sex marriage
Police believe she was escaping the abductor when she fell into the path of a passing car.
Whatever one's views, it's great to rediscover the ability to animate politics through a discussion of ideas rather than personality or passing tittle-tattle.
I grabbed a flute of champagne from a passing waiter and downed it.
Hearty congratulations on your passing the examination with excellent result.It is a well deserved reward for the hard effort you have made during the past year.
The Dutch tried to slow Spain's passing game with rough, physical play.
The newly developed satellite town is prospering with each passing day.
I walked down the lane, passing the big dachas until I came to one where, inside the square yard, a woman appeared.
The videos (as you can see for yourself above) show two groups of students weaving in and out while passing basketballs around.
[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
They exerted great influence in inducing communities to macadamize roads, for which the passing of the stage-coach and the spread of railroads had diminished the demand. History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)
The integrated density of a background box was subtracted from that of a box encompassing each sample.
Place it somewhere cool and bright and out of the sun, but not in some cold, dank corner with no air passing round it. Times, Sunday Times
Outside Mrs Roughley, who had been joined outside by some regulars, flagged down a passing police car.
There wasn't a moist eye here when the news of Frank's passing reached us.
He makes only a passing reference to the theory in his book.
The unstylish interior has remained unaltered and the laminated menus, populated by over a hundred items, are creased and dog-eared from passing through thousands of hungry hands.
However, there is a distinction between that and passing a constitutional amendment.
Time was when lights tucked away in the front wings were a sign of sophistication and cool, but with the passing of the Corvette and the Lotus Esprit no car has them any more.
Occasionally, they hold their hands out to the passing crowd asking for handouts, taking turns to sip an opaque liquid from a plastic container.
Thinly disguised supercars clothed in bodies which have a passing resemblance to cars on sale in America race round, trading paint and slipstreaming for 500 miles.
He represents the Fiend passing up through the market, and chuckling as he listens to the strange oaths of cobbler, maltman, tailor, courtier, and minstrel. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
The centrepiece of attraction is that the calendar tells a heart warming story with each passing month of the current year.
Passing over the parish boundary at Sunderlandwick, the old toll bar is on the right, and Bar Farm opposite.
And I'd also like to thank my math teacher for giving me a passing grade.
Back in France, de Gaulle simply appointed his own men to set up local administrations in liberated areas, bypassing the American plan for a military government of occupation.
That troops have been passing over to them all day, and that the triumph of the federalists is so sure, he has little doubt that the following morning will see tranquillity and federalism re-established. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
In Mr Smith's letter he pointed out that many well-known coach tour operators were passing through Sligo without stopping.
It happens most commonly in kids from three months to six years, and the condition also comes with a side order of fever, vomiting, and the passing of currant-colored, jellylike stool. You Raising Your Child
John did this by waving a small quartz crystal pendulum over the resistor, which was either passing current, or not - depending on the position of a simple flip-flop relay inside the circuit box.
The regional parliament threw down a new challenge to the central authorities by passing a law allowing private ownership of businesses.
There are photographs of ‘jilleroos’, but while nominally these are the female equivalent of ‘jackeroos’, the important difference is that jackeroos are young men getting station hand experience before passing onto something better, while jilleroos are merely female station hands full stop.
Demonstrators burned tyres and hurled stones at passing police cars.
I shrank back into the shadows of the alley and saw people passing by on the sidewalk.
Long are the "times" of Heaven: the orbits of angel messengers seem wide to mortal vision; they may enring ages: the cycle of one departure and return may clasp unnumbered generations; and dust, kindling to brief suffering life, and through pain, passing back to dust, may meanwhile perish out of memory again, and yet again. Villette
An active origin is suggested because volcanism and uplift appear to have preceded rifting, an active plume passing over a large area.
Calori found a small muscle passing from the hamate to the pisiform bone.
A spectrum is formed by a ray of light passing through a prism.
A beautiful backhand topspin lob got Capriati within two points of victory, and she wrapped it up with a good deep forehand and then a backhand passing shot. USATODAY.com - Capriati wins on wet day at U.S. Open
From his various perches he spies on the kaleidoscope of life passing beneath him. Times, Sunday Times
We extend our deepest sympathies to all those who mourn her passing.
In a triangle offense, shooting and passing skills are must-haves for the center.
This idea deserves more than passing comment.
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.
C., jury awarding Food Lion $ 5. 5 million in damages for fraud and trespassing.
Meet you, is my lucky, or just passing by.
Boyles regretted passing several does from a tower blind rashly dubbed ‘Muy Grande.’
Some unfortunate person passing below could all too easily be seriously injured.
Because Ganymede's orbit is tilted nearly edge-on to Earth, it routinely can be seen passing in front of and disappearing behind its giant host, only to reemerge later.
Each passing year leaves us with fewer veterans of the First World War to describe eye-witness accounts of the horror, bravery and comradeship at the front.
The pickup driver complied with the police order, but quickly fled from the truck, pulled out a handgun and commandeered a passing 2003 Toyota Corolla with two occupants.
Continuing the theme of movement, the third revealed a split screen showing identical images of relay racers passing a baton.
The passing was more incisive, the pace picked up and the balance of the team no longer looked lopsided. Times, Sunday Times
On opening the door and passing through the doorway the plaintiff immediately fell down a flight of steps and sustained injury.
The protesters, who are taking it in turns to sit under an umbrella beside the statue of Winston Churchill, had been attracting no more than a passing glance.
Her passing, after a long illness borne with true courage and fortitude, touched the hearts of all who knew her.
By mid-morning Twitter was abuzz with the fact that the beloved cookbook author and blogger was in town -- en plein air -- passing out french vanilla sables. Danika Boyle: Sparks From the Culinary Edge
Mentioned in passing is the kids 'multi-racial background: Dad is black, mom was white. 'Pyramid': It's another towering Riordan tale of mythology
A passing secretary stopped short, clutching her steno pad to her chest, staring wide-eyed at him.
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.
Moshe," said the Rabbi, passing swiftly and quietly through the hall. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
The world we live in, in the Buddhist context, is called samsara, a world of birth and death, of arising and passing away, where nothing happens unless conditions come together to bring it about.
a passing grade
My vote ultimately was for Eric Levine, because CellarTracker as an innovative informational internet tool (and with each passing year so much more, including a forum, commerce, etc) that has burgeoned to over 1 million wine reviews since its inception is both astounding and far-reaching. Vote now! Wine Person of the Decade [the Naughties] | Dr Vino's wine blog
Just than a passing youth snatched the woman's handbag and sprinted off, throwing it to another boy on a bike.
First, his visit ends the international isolation imposed on Syria since the passing of UN Resolution 1559 in 2004.
His anxiety about the work was just a passing phase.
In the first 57 propositions in On the Section of a Cone Serenus examined triangular sections of right and scalene cones made by planes passing through the vertex.
No need to play it, just watch it - it's brilliant for passing the hours when, in the middle of your life, you find that you have a lot of name tapes to sew on.
In what ways have you seen the world change - even with the passing of the Cold War?
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. Pablo Picasso
The bowsprit of the _Pique_ passing over the starboard-quarter of the _Blanche_, Captain Faulkner, aided by his second lieutenant and two others of his crew, was in the act of lashing the _Pique's_ bowsprit to her capstern, when he was shot by a musket-ball through the heart. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
With each passing year, geophysicists get closer to mapping the layer in fine detail.
There was the usual round of blood letting, some unusual apologies and yet more buck passing. Times, Sunday Times
A roe deer nibbles the heather shoots, unfazed by our passing.
Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much, or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave — but there's no reason to be in the passing lane. Robert Orben
But no matter how many more dot.coms go bust, nobody should infer from the fall-out that the engines of the new economy are passing, insubstantial fashions soon to fade.
The assailant was reportedly wrestled to the ground by a passing motorist. Times, Sunday Times
Staff passing by the windows of his sealed ward would see him jumping on his bed and waving to them, without a stitch of clothing on.
If successful, the IPO would be the world's biggest so far this year, according to Dealogic, surpassing the $127 million offering by Chinese health-care company Xizang Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd. in Shenzhen. Sunshine Oilsands Cleared for Hong Kong IPO

How To Use Passing In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):