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Examples of passing in a Sentence
After her husband's passing, she moved to a smaller house.
We all mourned his passing.
Recent Examples of passing from the Web
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Sixth-grade math scores declined slightly, from 43.2 percent to 42.5 percent passing.
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Diana, 7 Days airs on NBC on September 1 (the day after the 20th anniversary of her passing) at 8 p.m. EST/PT.
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Anthony Waiters, 32, of Scott Road in Waterbury also was charged with evading responsibility and improper passing, state police said.
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Still, Saban likes how Hurts has improved his passing after hitting rough patches last season.
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Last season, the Huskies increased McClatcher’s role in the passing game (31 receptions for 574 yards and 5 TDs).
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Apparently, the sky is the limit as for how Barkley will be used more this season in coordinator Joe Moorhead’s offense, meaning more ways to get the ball in space, and perhaps more creative use of him in the passing game.
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So much of the human condition is viscerally buying into the notion of progress and growth as an inevitable byproduct of the mere passing of time.
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Thursday (July 13) marks the fourth anniversary of Glee star Cory Monteith's tragic passing and fans and costars alike are honoring his memory.
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First Known Use of passing
14th century
passing Synonyms
Synonyms
curtains, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passage, death, quietus, sleepAntonyms
birth, nativityRelated Words
casualty, fatality; martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide; annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin; assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughterNear Antonyms
existence, life; creation, genesis, origination, riseDefinition of passing
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:going by or past
- a passing pedestrian
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:having a brief duration
- a passing whim
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:superficial
- a passing acquaintance
- a passing resemblance
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:of, relating to, or used in or for the act or process of passing
- passing lanes
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:given on satisfactory completion of an examination or course of study
- a passing grade
Examples of passing in a Sentence
Someone called out from a passing car.
She sells flowers to passing motorists.
Let's hope that these shoes are just a passing fad.
a passing phase in childhood
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Robles, of the 6000 block of South Kilpatrick Avenue in the West Lawn neighborhood, was shot by someone in a passing car while he was stopped at a street light, authorities said.
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Bohanan walked out of the woods along Panther Creek at mid-afternoon Tuesday and flagged down a passing boater.
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To qualify for the diploma, students must earn a minimum of seven passing credits from the exam.
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Not that SDSU is all of the sudden going to be known as a passing school again.
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Lines are forming, prices are rising and shelves are emptying as people scurry to obtain special eyewear to view the sun Monday as it is obscured by the passing moon.
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All this fire and fury from business executives in response to President Donald Trump’s inexcusable remarks about Charlottesville seems, on the surface, like yet another passing episode in a failing presidency.
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Despite her passing 20 years ago, Princess Diana’s memory still lives on: through memorials, through books, through organizations that bear her name.
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As anyone with a passing knowledge of astrophysics knows, this is all ending in the heat death of the universe--every star burning out until the universe is just an infinite dark space.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'passing.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of passing
14th century
passing Synonyms
Synonyms
brief, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitoryAntonyms
ceaseless, dateless, deathless, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immortal, lasting, long-lived, permanent, perpetual, timeless, undying, unendingRelated Words
little, short, shortish; acting, interim, provisional, short-termNear Antonyms
lifelong; continuing, durable, persistent; imperishable, indefectible, indestructibleExamples of passing in a Sentence
a passing strange turn of events
First Known Use of passing
14th century
passing Synonyms
Synonyms
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous [chiefly dialect], mortally, most, much, particularly, very, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildlyAntonyms
little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhatRelated Words
absolutely, altogether, completely, downright, entirely, flat-out, fully, positively, purely, radically, thoroughly, totally, utterly, wholly; deeply, profoundly; exceptionally, notably, remarkably; considerably, extensively, significantly, substantially; appreciably, discernibly, markedly, noticeably, obviously, palpably, plainly, visibly; abundantly, plentifully; astronomically, grandly, monstrously, monumentally; excessively, obscenely, overmuch; amazingly, astonishingly, staggeringlyNear Antonyms
meagerly, scantily; barely, hardly, just, marginally, minimally, scarcelyPASSING Defined for English Language Learners
passing
play
noun
Definition of passing for English Language Learners
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: the act of moving toward and beyond something
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: a person's death
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: the act of officially approving a bill, law, etc.
passing
adjective
Definition of passing for English Language Learners
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: moving past someone or something
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—used to talk about time that is going past
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: lasting for only a short time
PASSING Defined for Kids
Definition of passing for Students
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:going by or past
- passing cars
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:lasting only for a short time
- a passing fad
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:showing haste or lack of attention
- a passing glance
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:used for going past
- passing lanes
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:showing satisfactory work in a test or course of study
- a passing mark
Definition of passing for Students
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:the act of going by or going away
- We await the passing of winter.
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:death 1
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