Sample Sentences for
passage
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    This passage is adapted from Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man ©1952.
    passage = short part of a longer written work
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    "There's another passage in a different book I'd like to share with you," he said.  (source)
    passage = a short part of a longer written work
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    When he spoke, he somehow always managed to sound like he was reading a passage from Dickens.  (source)
    passage = short part of a longer written work
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    First, I translated a passage on Nelson's last battle from Dutch into English.  (source)
    passage = a short part of a longer written work
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    In Mrs. Polster's class, they memorized passages from The Book of the City of Ember every week.  (source)
    passages = short parts of a longer written work
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    "Need for a purpose" had been written in McCandless's hand in the margin above the passage.  (source)
    passage = a short part of a longer written work
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    Alums would like you to read a few passages from Langston Hughes.  (source)
    passages = short parts of longer written works
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    Mr. Birkway was desperately trying to explain what he had enjoyed about that passage.  (source)
    passage = short part of a longer written work
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    Since the disastrous episode of the pixies, Professor Lockhart had not brought live creatures to class. Instead, he read passages from his books to them, and sometimes reenacted some of the more dramatic bits.  (source)
    passages = short parts of longer written works
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    Every child was made to stand at the front of the room and read from a passage the teacher gave them.  (source)
    passage = a short part of a longer written work
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    What bothered Valentine most was when her column got syndicated into several other regional newsnets, and Father started reading it and quoting from it at table. "Finally, a man with some sense," he said. Then he quoted some of the passages Valentine hated worst in her own work.  (source)
    passages = short parts of longer written works
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    SIRAT: the passage in the O.C. Bible that describes human life as a journey across a narrow bridge (the Sirat) with "Paradise on my right."  (source)
    passage = a short part of a longer written work
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    Louie wanted to give him a religious eulogy but didn't know how, so he recited disjointed passages that he remembered from movies, ending with a few words about committing the body to the sea.  (source)
    passages = short parts of longer written works
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    Ron pointed — at the end of a passage to the left, something huge was moving toward them.  (source)
    passage = corridor
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    This time, as he lay basking in the wonderful warmth, he felt the passage of time.  (source)
    passage = passing
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    The Emerald Tablet is a direct passage to the Soul of the World.  (source)
    passage = a way to get from one place to another
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    The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon.  (source)
    passage = corridors or hallways
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    "Are there any secret passages?" said George.  (source)
    passages = ways of getting from one place to another
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    But it was the passage of time that worried them most.  (source)
    passage = passing
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    It's a relief to be alone with Cinna, to feel his protective arm around my shoulders as he guides me away from the cameras, down a few passages and to an elevator that leads to the lobby of the Training Center.  (source)
    passages = pathways
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    The sergeant paced up and down the passage of soldiers.  (source)
    passage = corridor
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    A law in Germany forbids the princes and states from charging tolls or customs on bridges, rivers, or passages without the consent of the emperor and the diet [legislature].  (source)
    passages = ways of getting from one place to another
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    The slow journey up the Inside Passage unfolded in a gauzy reverie of anticipation.  (source)
    Passage = way to get from one place to another
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    The morgue acquiesced, and by Saturday afternoon we found out that he had died from acute epiglottitis, a rare but treatable virus that causes the epiglottis to swell and cover the air passages to the lungs.  (source)
    passages = pathways
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    There wasn't anything left, not even enough for my passage.  (source)
    passage = ticket for transportation
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    And then Edgar got his wish, for the dogs wheeled and plunged through the passages to their outside runs.  (source)
    passages = pathways
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