Passing in sentence

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Then, one day, from the corner of my eye, I saw his body slither like a snake, an involuntary spasm passing through the course of his limbs.

Mounted on roads or on police cars, Automatic License Plate Readers capture images of every passing car and convert the license plate into machine-readable text so that they can be checked against hot lists of cars potentially wanted for wrongdoing.

At that time, it was a plane passing by.

The big picture is this: That plane with those people going somewhere, that's life passing us by while we behind these walls, stuck."

So you have radio waves and microwaves and X-rays and gamma rays passing through your body right now and you're completely unaware of it, because you don't come with the proper biological receptors for picking it up.

There are thousands of cell phone conversations passing through you right now, and you're utterly blind to it.

We went on the deck and turned our torches on and off to attract the attention of any passing boat.

DL: Tori set off her distress beacon and was rescued by a passing container ship.

All right class, so then there were men who had more than just a passing relationship to this issue.

So in the relay race, since passing the baton is so important, then we need somebody clearly accountable for passing the baton.

So between each runner, now we will have a new dedicated athlete, clearly dedicated to taking the baton from one runner, and passing it to the next runner.

In Hawaii, they're passing legislation to have 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.

Bob's passing this past summer has been a loss to all of us.

Passing life from one generation to the next is the chain of being.

By splitting up, each student has more area exposed that is available for a collision from a passing student.

The first way to meet a metaphor is just to see the world through its eyes: an insect sings from a branch passing by in the middle of the river.

You know, that's one of those things that when you hear it in passing, can sound correct.

Making laws is the primary function of the legislative branch, but it is also responsible for approving federal judges and justices, passing the national budget, and declaring war.

Almost 60 years before Darwin published his book, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that creatures evolve by developing certain traits over their lifetimes and then passing those on to their offspring.

Trying to measure the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet passing in front of its host star is hard.

It's like trying to see a fruit fly passing in front of a car's headlight.

Outside your window, the passing space station may seem to be changing speed, but the beings inside the station will not feel it.

And in the process of passing through the wetland and percolating through the ground, the water encounters microbes that live on the surfaces of the plants and the surfaces of the soil, and that purifies the water.

And everything in the street, every passing person or car, any contents of the neighbor's trash, each type of tree, and all the birds and insects in it has a distinct odor profile telling your dog what it is, where it is, and which direction it's moving in.

First, the vagus nerve, which runs through the body into the brain, quickly transmits the information to the brain stem, passing near an important area of pain processing.

You learn that one of you will be allowed to try to escape by passing a challenge while everyone else will be fed to the mutant salamanders the next morning.

And so somebody else said, well, how about a huge swarm of comets that are passing by this star in a very elliptical orbit?

But with every passing day, we approach the age of volitional evolution, a time during which we as a species will have the capacity to decide for ourselves our own genetic destiny.

The day we met, we were passing each other in Azadi Square, and we bumped shoulders.

We spent the day climbing together to a specific crack in the middle of the wall that was choked with loose rocks that made that section difficult and potentially dangerous, because any missed step might knock a rock to the ground and kill a passing climber or hiker.

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