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Passenger in sentence

190 examples of Passenger in a sentence

It's a train ride, and you're a passenger on the train, and there are certain people with you.
This one is passive, being a passenger on that train, and it's quite linear.
And just very quickly, something we've been working on very recently is we were commissioned by the mayor of London to design a new bus that gave the passenger their freedom again.
As a multi-purpose passenger vehicle, it is now officially "designed for occasional off-road use." (Laughter) Now let's see it in action.
CA: I imagine you're not planning to open up to passenger service from New York to Long Beach anytime soon.
Imagine, for example, you're the captain of a cruise ship trying to make your way through a thick fog and some passenger in the back turns on a Wave Bubble.
Or are there contexts where we're far better off taking the passenger's seat and have someone else drive?
So if you think about it, this is an extreme-case scenario, because in the real world, whenever you are taking passenger's seat, very often the driver is going to be someone you trust, an expert, etc.
And therefore, there are times when you're facing the INCA, when the feedback is going to be immediate, negative, concrete and you have the sense of agency, where you're far better off taking the passenger's seat and have someone else drive.
But one thing I didn't mention was that very early on into her treatment, my wife and I decided that we would take the passenger's seat.
An old woman is driving with her middle-aged daughter in the passenger seat, and the mother goes right through a red light.
It had a driver and a passenger, and after the car had passed the judge by, the passenger extended his hand, pointed it back to the judge as the car continued on, just as the teenagers had described it, right?
There's an arm sticking out of the passenger side and pointed back at you.
I said, "Your honor," and I don't know whether I was emboldened by the scientific measurements that I had in my pocket and my knowledge that they are accurate, or whether it was just sheer stupidity, which is what the defense lawyers thought — (Laughter) — when they heard me say, "Yes, Your Honor, I want you stand right there and I want the car to go around the block again and I want it to come and I want it to stop right in front of you, three to four feet away, and I want the passenger to extend his hand with a black object and point it right at you, and you can look at it as long as you want."
Passenger aircraft crash, one in 20,000.
We didn't really realize that until 1914, when the last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, died at the Cincinnati zoo.
I started with my wife, Ryan Phelan, who ran a biotech business called DNA Direct, and through her, one of her colleagues, George Church, one of the leading genetic engineers who turned out to be also obsessed with passenger pigeons and a lot of confidence that methodologies he was working on might actually do the deed.
So he and Ryan organized and hosted a meeting at the Wyss Institute in Harvard bringing together specialists on passenger pigeons, conservation ornithologists, bioethicists, and fortunately passenger pigeon DNA had already been sequenced by a molecular biologist named Beth Shapiro.
The passenger pigeon has 1.3 billion base pairs in its genome.
Okay, the closest living relative of the passenger pigeon is the band-tailed pigeon.
Genetically, the band-tailed pigeon already is mostly living passenger pigeon.
If you replace those bits with passenger pigeon bits, you've got the extinct bird back, cooing at you.
So there's genes for the short tail in the band-tailed pigeon, genes for the long tail in the passenger pigeon, and so on with the red eye, peach-colored breast, flocking, and so on.
First off, Ryan and I decided to create a nonprofit called Revive and Restore that would push de-extinction generally and try to have it go in a responsible way, and we would push ahead with the passenger pigeon.
Another direct result was a young grad student named Ben Novak, who had been obsessed with passenger pigeons since he was 14 and had also learned how to work with ancient DNA, himself sequenced the passenger pigeon, using money from his family and friends.
Now, this photograph I took of him last year at the Smithsonian, he's looking down at Martha, the last passenger pigeon alive.
The sequence of events: he'll put together the genomes of the band-tailed pigeon and the passenger pigeon, he'll take the techniques of George Church and get passenger pigeon DNA, the techniques of Robert Lanza and Michael McGrew, get that DNA into chicken gonads, and out of the chicken gonads get passenger pigeon eggs, squabs, and now you're getting a population of passenger pigeons.
It does raise the question of, they're not going to have passenger pigeon parents to teach them how to be a passenger pigeon.
Well birds are pretty hard-wired, as it happens, so most of that is already in their DNA, but to supplement it, part of Ben's idea is to use homing pigeons to help train the young passenger pigeons how to flock and how to find their way to their old nesting grounds and feeding grounds.
We're also going to push ahead with the passenger pigeon.
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