PASSAGE in a Sentence

Learn PASSAGE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

249 example sentences for PASSAGE, such as:

1. A dark narrow passage led to the main hall.
2. She could cite passages in the Bible from memory.
3. Let's reduce the passage to half the number of words.
4. She stopped at a window in the passage and held back the curtain.
5. A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices.

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 Meanings and Examples of PASSAGE
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passage
 n.  the act of passing from one state or place to the next
 n.  the motion of one object relative to another
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Near the further end a low arched passage branched away from it and led to the chemical laboratory.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  The narrow passage led us into a quadrangle paved with flags and lined by sordid dwellings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
4  It came slowly along the passage, and there was a feeble tap at the door.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
5  From under the door there curled a little red ribbon of blood, which had meandered across the passage and formed a little pool along the skirting at the other side.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  His face and hands were terribly mangled by his passage through the glass, but loss of blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
7  If you tapped--one gentleman had a hammer--there was a hollow sound; a reverberation; undoubtedly, he said, a concealed passage where once somebody had hid.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
8  She stopped at a window in the passage and held back the curtain.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
9  The old woman had wandered out into the passage and leant against the window.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
10  So far I'd read when the old lady came tapping down the passage like a blind man in an alley.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
11  From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  It contained neither secret passage nor trap-door, and unless where the door by which she had entered joined the main building, seemed to be circumscribed by the round exterior wall of the turret.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  In a low-arched and dusky passage, by which he endeavoured to work his way to the hall of the castle, he was interrupted by a female form.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  But Ivanhoe was like the war-horse of that sublime passage, glowing with impatience at his inactivity, and with his ardent desire to mingle in the affray of which these sounds were the introduction.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  'Thanks, then, for the help, Mellors,' said Clifford casually, as he began to wheel down the passage to the servants' quarters.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
16  A dark narrow passage led to the main hall.
17  They caved in the roof of the underground passage with powerful explosives.
18  Let's reduce the passage to half the number of words.
19  The crevice passage twisted into this reef, curved directly to the north heel, and ran along the base of the rock.
20  Dancers like to wear porous clothing because it allows the ready passage of water and air.
21  The negotiators reach agreement and a fast track legislation that would allow passage through the US congress without amendments.
22  Before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it.
23  He recited the passage by rote and gave no indication he understood what he was saying.
24  The minister based her sermon on her exegesis of a difficult passage from the book of Job.
25  However, they worried through, and each got his reward -- in small blue tickets, each with a passage of Scripture on it; each blue ticket was pay for two verses of the recitation.
26  Led by her, I passed from compartment to compartment, from passage to passage, of a large and irregular building.
27  She could cite passages in the Bible from memory.
28  Following the guidance, we had to thread some complex passages, and mount a staircase before we reached her apartment.
29  The critic should emend the book by selecting the passages which he thought most appropriate to the text.
30  The erotic passages in this novel should be removed as they are merely pornographic.