Use passed in a sentence
Sentences starting with passed
- Passed a most awful night. [5]
- Passed some sea-weed and something that looked like the trunk of an old tree, but no birds; beginning to be afraid islands not there. [5]
Sentences ending with passed
- Some one person--some young woman, it must be--had produced a singular impression upon him since those earlier perilous experiences through which he had passed. [6]
- In February he wrote: "Our two months in Florence have been the most ridiculous time that ever even half-witted people passed. [5]
- In some cryptic way it was associated with the direful experience through which she had just passed. [11]
- That Mrs. Larrabbee was still another revelation, that she was not at rest, was gradually revealed to him as the days passed. [9]
- He took what was offered, but it was with the air of one to whom the time for pellets was passed. [4]
- Yet the impression was instantaneous, when I set forth in the streets of New York, that we had not fully measured the magnitude of our task--an impression that has been amply confirmed as the weeks have passed. [9]
- The new law was framed and passed. [5]
- The town was waking from its siesta, the streets filling, and people stopped to stare at Nick as we passed. [9]
- We were a utilitarian people who would never create a great literature, and he reminded me that the days of the romantic and the picturesque had passed. [9]
- With such a universal provision, all know the bills could not have passed. [7]
Short sentences using passed
- Four hours passed, without tidings. [5]
- A shiver passed through him. [11]
- A shudder passed through her. [11]
- Cambyses passed a sleepless night. [10]
- Minutes passed in silence. [11]
- Ten, twenty, fifty seconds passed. [11]
- Many days passed quietly. [11]
- The Seigneur's momentary placidity passed. [11]
- Half an hour passed. [9]
- A full minute passed. [9]
Sentences containing passed two or more times
- They had passed us as we came down, for we had sailed inside some islands of the coast, getting shelter and better passage, and the fleet had, no doubt, passed outside. [11]
- They found that two or three balls had entered his right side; one of them appeared to have passed through the substance of the lungs, while another passed into the liver. [5]
- He passed over to the other side, a few miles away and relieved two men of devils, which passed into some swine. [5]
- Now he argues that all the point there was in those resolutions, although never passed at Springfield, is retained by their being passed at other localities. [7]
- Minute after minute passed, hours passed, and the fight of the soul to maintain itself against the disordered mind went on. [11]
- It passed, as passed the rolling clouds of smoke, and she saw the valley deepening into the shades of twilight. [13]
- In a day or two Douglas's orders came on to have resolutions passed approving the bill; and they were passed by large majorities!!!! [7]
- Every hour, every moment that I had ever passed in Alixe's presence, with many little incidents and scenes in which we shared, passed before me--vivid and cherished pictures of the mind. [11]
- It was passed in violence because it could not have passed at all but for the votes of many members in violence of the known will of their constituents. [7]
- She danced with him, and passed him back to Miss Puss Russell, who was better pleased this time; she passed him on to her sister, who also danced with him, and sent him upstairs for her handkerchief. [9]
More example sentences with the word passed in them
- I passed through your village that very night, and was his guest till the midnight train came along. [5]
- I passed through your town at a certain time, and received a deep offence which I had not earned. [5]
- Bear witness to your friend that no evil word ever passed the lips of either of them. [10]
- He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
- Please answer as you would do, on my requirement, if the act of June 15, 1864, had not been passed, and I will so use your opinion as to satisfy that act. [7]
- I am glad you told me my faults plainly in private, for in your public notice you touch on them so lightly, I should perhaps have passed them over thus indicated, with too little reflection. [14]
- I don't ask you to tell me what passed between you that night. [9]
- The day passed, yet the embers blazed not into the flame of open mutiny. [9]
- They had not yet said anything to each other, except how happy, how glad, how thankful they were to have each other again; then a sentinel passed, and she started up, exclaiming anxiously: "So late, so late; Zorrillo will be waiting! [10]
- A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
- Now, after ten years, a bill was finally passed to pay to Moses the difference between what he earned in that unlucky year and what he received. [5]
- After all the years that had passed since his wife had left him, Jean Jacques did explode. [11]
- But still two years passed before David came. [11]
- An' as the years passed at long intervals I would find such a man. [13]
- A great many years have passed since I was a parishioner of St. John's --a great many years. [9]
- Livy darling, six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for that happy success by sending you into the world. [5]
- Thus three long years had passed, during which Sappho had seldom seen her grandmother, for, as the mother of Parmys, she was by the king's command, forbidden to leave the harem, unless permitted and accompanied either by Kassandane or the eunuchs. [10]
- More than nine years had passed since the closing of the Hartford house--eventful years that had seen failure, bereavement, battle with debt, and rehabilitated fortunes. [5]
- More than a year had passed since she had seen him, but there was no emotion, no ardour in their present greeting. [11]
- We grounded, and Xavier, seizing a great tow-rope, leaped into the shallow water and passed the bight around a trunk. [9]
- Speed says he wrote you what Jo Smith said about you as he passed here. [7]
- Then the President wrote upon a paper before him, and it was passed to each member of the Court sitting with him. [11]
- The letter you wrote me, never a day or night has passed but, one way or another, it has come home to me. [11]
- But who has written out these others that are being so assiduously passed around? [9]
- She bathed the wound--the bullet had passed clean through the fleshy part of the arm--and then carefully tied the scarf round it over her handkerchief. [11]
- A casual glance would have passed by these little dents; if Venters had not known what they signified he would never have bestowed upon them the second glance. [13]
- But as luck would have it, the Governor had been that day in such worry and perplexity, and my grandfather also, that my absence had passed unnoticed. [9]
- The United American Workers (who were half foreigners by birth) passed resolutions denouncing Henderson for employing foreign pauper labor, and organized more than one strike while the house was building. [4]
- Laying down her work, she passed into the front hall. [11]
- As the evening wore on, he was more and more aware of an uncompromising attitude in his young hostess, whom he had seen whispering to various young ladies from behind her fan as they passed her. [9]
- A few swift words passed between Goatry and Foyle. [11]
- For thee her wooing hour has passed, The singing birds have flown, And winter comes with icy blast To chill thy buds unblown. [6]
- I did not wonder then, but I have since thought it remarkable that the words spoken low by both of them should have been caught up on the banquette and passed into the street. [9]
- Though Thyone might wonder that a man pursued by Nemesis could allow himself to be borne along so thoughtlessly by the stream of pleasure, Daphne certainly did not grudge him the festal season which, when it had passed, could never return to the blind artist. [10]
- An honest, ignorant woman, she could not have passed an examination in the youngest class. [6]
- While the neat-handed woman worked busily and carefully many merry jests passed between them--many sincere and hearty words of admiration--and before long Arsinoe had become quite excited and took pleased interest in the needle-woman's labors. [10]
- Another half-hour later Wolf entered and passed to his place; then other deputies began to stream in, among them many forms and faces grown familiar of late. [5]
- Private Gellatly, standing without, heard Sergeant Fones say, as he passed into the open air, and slowly bared his forehead to the winter sun: "Exactly. [11]
- It was not without great fear and trepidation that little Nell slipped off her shoes and gliding through the store-room of old curiosities, where Mr Brass--the ugliest piece of goods in all the stock--lay sleeping on a mattress, passed into her own little chamber. [12]
- Another day passed without action, when the chambermaid was again applied to. [4]
- Lady Belward turned without a word, and slowly passed from the room. [11]
- Then we passed within the great doors, and it seemed that the riches of the world were before us! [5]
- A striking contrast with what happened when Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon, and Spenser, and Raleigh, and the other distinguished literary folk of Shakespeare's time passed from life! [5]
- Barode Barouche fought with vigour, but from the going of Luzanne Larue, there passed from him the confidence he had felt since the first day of Carnac's candidature. [11]
- So time passed with the speed of the wind. [10]
- Pierre went on with the soldiers, quite forgetting that his inn was at the bottom of the hill and that he had already passed it. [2]
- Again we passed with the same excuse, and we rounded a headland, and the great work was begun. [11]
- She turned quickly, with the pageant of her dreams still wavering in her face; smiled at him distantly, looked towards the window again in a troubled way, then stepped softly and swiftly to the door, and passed out. [11]
- They passed who with Homer Poured out the wine at the feet of their idols: Passing, what found they? [11]
- So he walked with his head high and his heart full of pride, and it confirmed his courage when one of Zminis's men, whom they passed in the brightly illuminated Kanopic street, and who had helped to secure Philip, looked at him without recognizing him. [10]
- She passed them with her head high. [9]
- She followed him with her eyes as he passed from her sight through the door, and when it closed after him sobbed tremulously once or twice, but stilled herself, and met Helen, as she entered, with a composed countenance. [6]
- Margaret was not with her at St. Barnaby in the fatal fortnight she passed there, and never saw the Leightons till she went to call upon them. [8]
- The twenty-four sharpshooters with discharged muskets, standing in the center of the circle, ran back to their places as the companies passed by. [2]
- He greeted Andreas with cheerful kindness, and the freedman knew what he meant when, without waiting to be asked, he said: "We are out of the wood now; the fever has passed away. [10]
- His Majesty will--" With a gesture of despair Enderby turned and entered the house, and passed into the library, where he found his daughter. [11]
- One or two wise men, however, were able to secure order long enough to have the resolution passed for forming a Local Interests Committee whose duty it would be to see that the people were not sacrificed to a "soulless plutocracy. [11]
- So passed that winter, the darkest of my life. [9]
- They passed one winter yachting among the islands in the eastern Mediterranean; a part of another sailing from one tropical paradise to another in the West Indies. [4]
- He passed the winter of 1892-93 at Florence; but he found the air of the valley of the Arno no perceptible improvement upon that of the valley of the Connecticut. [4]
- They passed that winter in London, where he worked at the story of his travels, Following the Equator, the proofs of which he read the next summer in Switzerland. [5]
- While the west wind blew its tidings, filling his heart full, teaching him a man's part, the days passed, the purple clouds changed to white, and the storms were over for that summer. [13]
- And I'm entirely willing to discuss with him and defend any measures passed in the legislature of this state by a Republican majority. [9]
- They passed, too, wild lakes overhung with primeval trees, where the iris and the waterlily grew among the fallen trunks and the water-fowl called to each other across the blue stretches. [9]
- A few priests whom he passed turned their backs upon him, others looked down at their dinners, eating noisily, and making as if they did not see him. [10]
- His wife, to whom he had been so faithful in one sense since she had passed into the asylum, had died, and with her going, a new field of life seemed to open up to him. [11]
- It was Archibius, who with grave composure bade them follow him, and silently led them around the sanctuary to a side door, through which, a short time before, a litter had passed, accompanied by several attendants. [10]
- No one passed who seemed to notice them, or to whom she durst appeal. [12]
- Captain Basil Hall, who saw it at flood-stage, says-- 'Sometimes we passed along distances of twenty or thirty miles without seeing a single habitation. [5]
- These were they who resented deeply Fleda's defection, and truthfully felt that she had passed out of their circle for ever; that she despised them, and looked down on them from another sphere. [11]
- Shall a man who in his younger days has written poetry, or what passed for it, continue to attempt it in his later years? [6]
- Only a man who has experienced it--that is, has passed some months continuously in an atmosphere of campaigning and war--can understand the delight Nicholas felt when he escaped from the region covered by the army's foraging operations, provision trains, and hospitals. [2]
- A figure in white stepped through and slowly passed him. [11]
- All the time, while these thoughts passed through his mind, he was afraid Dryfoos would die. [8]
- At the entrance, which was perfectly dark, he found his master, Papias, who had not missed a word of what had passed between him and the Emperor. [10]
- The streets along which they passed in the pale morning light were now deserted, and a film of mist, behind which glowed the golden light of the newly risen sun, shrouded the horizon. [10]
- In the hut which the men had passed, the chief officers had gathered and were in animated talk over their tea about the events of the day and the maneuvers suggested for tomorrow. [2]
- Her arm through which the bullet had passed was painful, but she took no heed of it. [11]
- The old aqueduct, which supplied the courts of sacrifice and the Subterranean crypts of the temple where the mysteries of Serapis were celebrated, passed close by the back-wall of this warehouse. [10]
- Weeks passed in which she scarcely spoke a word. [9]
- The caleche in which Prince Andrew was being taken attracted Sonya's attention as it passed the front porch. [2]
- In the Congress which passed it there were two of the "thirty-nine. [7]
- Nothing of that which passed between Amasis and Psamtik has escaped thine ears. [10]
- But these delights, which Nemu had passed a thousand times, had never had any temptation for him. [10]
- It was that which made her give a little jerky bow to the miller and the postmaster when she passed the mill. [11]
- The crisis through which I passed at Cambridge, inaugurated by the events I have just related, I find very difficult to portray. [9]
- Had the feelings which her glances were intended to reveal passed merely for the ardent gratitude of an impassioned soul? [10]
- During several weeks which he passed at Nahant, a seaside resort near Boston, I saw him almost daily. [6]
- The hysterical passion which had possessed him suddenly passed, and a dark, sullen determination swept into his eyes and over his face. [11]
- The long weeks which had passed since that night at Hamley, when she had told Eglington the truth about so many things, had brought no peace, no understanding, no good news from anywhere. [11]
- The three years which had passed since she married had touched her not at all to her disadvantage, rather to her profit. [11]
- During the week which had passed since Austen's departure the house in Hanover Street had been haunted for Hilary. [9]
- We looked every where, as we passed along, but never saw grain or crystal of Lot's wife. [5]
- Under the porch, where she had sat when Heaven in its mercy brought her to that peaceful spot, she passed again; and the old church received her in its quiet shade. [12]
- As they passed where he sat, Kit looked so wistfully at the little turn-out, that the old gentleman looked at him. [12]
- In the morning, when we departed for the ascent of the Gemmi, we passed one of the bathing-houses. [4]
- An hour passed, when Henderson came hurrying in, pale, excited, but joyous. [4]
- The noise of wheels, hoofs, and bells was heard from the gateway as a little trap passed out. [2]
- Charmian, not knowing what to do, passed her arm around her. [10]
- This, then, was what happened when Jethro had heard of her dismissal--he had left Coniston without writing her a word and passed through Brampton without seeing her. [9]
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