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Passes in sentence

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The breeze passes through them.
In the time that passes between when I was a kid in high school and when I started teaching, we really see the advent of the Internet.
A week passes.
When newspapers arrive at her home, she watches as it passes from the eldest man to the youngest man.
And very importantly, with the introduction of sexual reproduction that passes on the genome, the rest of the body becomes expendable.
Because I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
He passes it on the right.
As it comes out of the grinder, you just have a little tray, and you just take it off in little passes, build it up, slice it vertically.
In the case of Mubenga, we couldn't do that, but they could send us their boarding passes.
The molecule passes through and gets excreted.
It completely passes below the radar screen.
When one person passes the order to you, you put something in and pass it downstream.
"I" passes insensibly into a "we," "my" becomes "our" and individual faith loses its central importance.
If it passes the microscopic test, we go for a collection.
Terrified of his master, he will not run away, and since he's been treated with cruelty all his life, he passes that down to the younger slaves that he manages.
She finds the first sector on the disk, and takes data off the disk and passes it off to, of course, the bus.
Control passes to blue, and blue says, "I accept it," in which case he'd get the money, or blue says, "I reject it," in which case no one gets anything.
Our life longevity is going up almost a year for every year that passes.
When the wind passes, rises to pass over the mountain, it can take on a wave-like path in the lee of the peak, with these clouds hovering at the crest of these invisible standing waves of air, these flying saucer-like forms, and some of the early black-and-white UFO photos are in fact lenticularis clouds.
But if it weren't for the strangely familiar stomach-churning odor that constantly passes through the apartment, it would be easy to forget that you are standing next to a cow shed and on top of a landfill.
Maybe a year passes, nothing.
So when a viewer passes by, it sort of tilts from side to side, and moves its arms more and more frantically as the person gets closer.
Usain Bolt passes him, and as the runners come to the finish, you'll hear a beep as each man crosses the line.
But more than that, increasingly, local police departments are keeping records not just of people wanted for wrongdoing, but of every plate that passes them by, resulting in the collection of mass quantities of data about where Americans have gone.
We taught it things like passes, shots and rebounds.
Nothing, not even light, can move fast enough to escape a black hole’s gravitational pull once it passes a certain boundary, known as the event horizon.
Similarly, light that passes close enough to an event horizon will be deflected in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.
For example, refraction, which is how a beam of light appears to bend as it passes from air into water.
But one organism's garbage is another's gold, and all that rotting dead stuff ultimately provides the energy that nourishes us and most of life on Earth, as it passes through the food web.
Well, Turing said that if a computer could fool a human 30 percent of the time that it was a human, then it passes the Turing test for intelligence.
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