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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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The Colonels finished with 496 yards of offense (355 rushing, 141 passing).
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One week after setting the Franklin record for touchdown passes, senior quarterback Chase Burton (Corydon) set the previous passing yardage record of 10,653 yards.
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For hour after agonizing hour, the men wait, aware that every passing minute could be their last.
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Wentz is tied for the league lead in TD passes with 19 and is first in third-down passing rating (118.8).
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Riley Ferguson set a school passing record with 471 yards as the Tigers moved atop the West Division with a 42-38 victory at Houston.
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Miles said what impressed him with Love was his vision when running the zone read, seeing where the pressure was coming from and deciding whether to hand off, run it himself or even use a passing option.
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Carroll said the team wanted to attack the 49ers on the edges with short passes to the likes of Doug Baldwin and Tyler Lockett, who each had six receptions on nine targets, a short passing attack that also helps mitigate issues with pass protection.
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While his rushing totals were down last year, Breunig's impact in the passing game grew.
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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
5 a
: 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
Recent Examples of passing from the Web
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Auburn's passing game is more effective than the past two years, but the statistical evidence shows certain trends for the offense remain more in line with Malzahn's past than Lindsey's body of work as a coordinator.
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The passing game opened up for quarterback Alex McGough and receiver Thomas Owens in the second half as Owens finished with a career-high 11 receptions and 162 yards.
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Too much reliance on a short, risk-averse passing game, and too much conservative play-calling in general.
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Some experts believe that driving too slow in the passing lane is at least as dangerous as driving too fast because people trapped from behind get frustrated and make dangerous maneuvers, creating anger and accidents.
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But over the past few years consumers across the region have done their best to prove that prudence was perhaps just a passing phase.
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Auburn's tight ends remain missing from the passing attack, but the Tigers continue to get some positive play out of Chandler Cox at H-back.
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The Bears secondary will have its hands full against a passing attack that averaged 295.3 yards per game last season, third in the NFL.
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Trailing 14-0 in the second quarter, Arlington Lamar used its passing attack to claw back into the contest, but the South Grand Prairie Warriors held off the Vikings’ comeback attempt.
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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
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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