Passive in sentence

313 examples of Passive in a sentence

Our political system remains the same for the past 200 years and expects us to be contented with being simply passive recipients of a monologue.

We are not passive consumers of data and technology.

The way this works is that Rosetta has to be at the right point in space, and aiming towards the comet, because the lander is passive.

So that males are always supposed to be dominant and aggressive, and females are passive and coy.

But it also means that the males are very passive about mating, whereas the females are extremely aggressive and competitive, in an attempt to get as many of these nutritious nuptial gifts as they can.

And when the action is pre-recorded and takes place in a distant time and space, watching seems like a passive activity.

But we're not passive when we watch.

Repetition invites us into music as imagined participants, rather than as passive listeners.

One: recognize that passive hearing and active listening are not the same.

Calorie-dense processed foods and growing portion sizes coupled with pervasive marketing lead to passive overeating.

And I've always thought it a shame that these giant, plant-eating dinosaurs are too often portrayed as passive, lumbering platters of meat on the landscape.

Not voting can be dressed up as an act of principled, passive resistance, but in fact not voting is actively handing power over to those whose interests are counter to your own, and those who would be very glad to take advantage of your absence.

What does it feel like to see? It's immediate and passive.

This means "to notice" in a passive sort of sense, as in, "I noticed he was wearing a light blue shirt."

And we have always thought of it as just sort of this passive property.

So, imagine if we were all less passive in love.

Even Siri is just a passive tool.

In fact, for the last three-and-a-half million years, the tools that we've had have been completely passive.

Tools are making this leap from being passive to being generative.

Path two, you become guilty of the evil of passive inaction.

This is just using passive optical, which is essentially what a person uses.

The whole road system is meant to be navigated with passive optical, or cameras, and so once you solve cameras or vision, then autonomy is solved.

But as the internet has become more and more a part of our lives, our reliance on it, our use of it, has become often more passive.

These lancets are available everywhere, completely passive.

This wasn't a passive screen experience.

Fear number one: "Screens are passive.

Each module, either active or passive, we can assemble them to create different shapes.

The first leaflet denounced Hitler and called for Germans to sabotage the war effort: “Adopt passive resistance… block the functioning of this atheistic war machine before it is too late, before the last city is a heap of rubble… before the last youth of our nation bleeds to death... Don’t forget that each people gets the government it deserves!”

So gamers grew up expecting this live, interactive entertainment, and passive consumption just doesn't feel as fulfilling.

And these bacteria are not passive riders.

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