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Passage in sentence

816 examples of Passage in a sentence

And there's a passage in it which I would love to share with you.
You know, there's a very interesting passage in a book by Paul Cohen, the American historian.
There's a quote from Moses on the side of the Liberty Bell, and it comes from a passage in the book of Leviticus, that every seven years you should let the land lay fallow.
I remember when I first read this passage.
Ever since that day, I've been trying to apply the concepts in this passage to my day-to-day life.
Many years later, I couldn't bear the thought of my son turning 13 without some kind of rite of passage.
We signal the passage of a life with rituals.
I am a writer, and I want to close by reading you a short passage that I wrote that has to do very much with this scene.
And I wanted to read you this one closing passage about one patient.
This is how researchers discovered that, after women repeatedly read aloud a section of Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" while they were pregnant, their newborn babies recognized that passage when they hear it outside the womb.
When my students didn't understand something in my comics lecture, they could just reread that passage as quickly or as slowly as they needed.
But if you're a Zen Buddhist in the middle of September, you will be ordered out of your home, made to stand on a canonical platform and made to celebrate the festival of Tsukimi, where you will be given poems to read in honor of the Moon and the passage of time and the frailty of life that it should remind us of.
It's more than a hundred miles across a difficult passage of ocean.
In Saskatchewan, as across all of the boreal, home to some of our most famous rivers, an incredible network of rivers and lakes that every school-age child learns about, the Peace, the Athabasca, the Churchill here, the Mackenzie, and these networks were the historical routes for the voyageur and the coureur de bois, the first non-aboriginal explorers of Northern Canada that, taking from the First Nations people, used canoes and paddled to explore for a trade route, a Northwest Passage for the fur trade.
We're actually projecting in another 10 years the level of disenfranchisement will be as high as it's been since prior to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
We also said that the 21st century would see shifting climate zones, creation of drought-prone regions in North America and Asia, erosion of ice sheets, rising sea levels and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.
Here's a key passage where he basically describes the staircase.
So she said, "We talked about the Middle Passage."
And so, you know, this is the Middle Passage, this is an incredibly significant event, and she's treating it like, basically some black people went on a cruise, this is more or less how it sounds to her. (Laughter) And so, to me, I wanted more value in this, so when she asked if she could play a game, I said, "Yes."
This is the Middle Passage, Nobody wants to go on the Middle Passage."
He didn't expect to come home from work to the Middle Passage, but there it goes.
In response to this and many other lawsuits, the NRA lobbied for the passage of the PLCAA, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
At Camp Diva, my non-profit organization, we have these types of conversations all the time as a way to help girls of African descent prepare for their passage into womanhood.
In our tradition, there is a ceremony that girls have to undergo to become women, and it's a rite of passage to womanhood.
But the point is that Parliament was outwitted in the whole course of events, because what really happened is that, because of the suspicious passage of that law, the law was actually passed into effect on the weekend we celebrated our 50th anniversary of independence, our jubilee of independence.
That passage of the law and the repeal of the law fortified the case of the Piarco Airport accused.
For example, imagine a passage from Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:" "The whole engagement lasted above twelve hours, till the graduate retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and the Surenas himself."
And I was in a village where there was an initiation ceremony for the young men, a rite of passage.
A couple of years ago, I took a passage on the Maersk Kendal, a mid-sized container ship carrying nearly 7,000 boxes, and I departed from Felixstowe, on the south coast of England, and I ended up right here in Singapore five weeks later, considerably less jet-lagged than I am right now.
So when you're done surveying, you take all this data and you punch it into a computer and you find someone that can draw really well, and you have them draft up a map that looks something like this, and it'll show you both a bird's-eye view of the passage as well as a profile view of the passage, kind of like an ant farm view.
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