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Example sentences for "pass through"

  • Can you draw the countries they'd have to pass through?

  • There was a narrow side-street it was necessary for him to pass through if he wished to make a short cut.

  • But for the lines of soldiers, there would have seemed no chance for any one to pass through it alive.

  • Upon drawing near to the ancient Baalbec, I found on inquiry of our guide, that we were not to pass through it, as I had hoped, nor even very near it, not nearer than between two and three miles.

  • He was the guardian of the place, and motioned to us to enter, signifying by a gesture that we had no alternative but to pass through, this being the only road on our way.

  • Jean Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius.

  • It is necessary to pass through Paris in order to get from the old post to the new one.

  • In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass through.

  • German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump.

  • The man who keeps the toll-gate through which it passes to the world, and who opens it only gradually, so as to permit the increased quantity to pass through slowly, paying largely for the privilege.

  • The Indians opened up a path for them to pass through, and they came as men go to the grave.

  • Dazed, I watched her open the bedroom doors, motion to Lindy to pass through, and then she had closed them again and I was alone in the darkened parlor.

  • She opened the door--furtively, I thought--just wide enough for me to pass through.

  • About midnight, on my asking for horses at some stage, the name of which I forget, they told me that the next stage was the fortified town of Aire, which we should not be allowed to pass through at midnight.

  • Having made up my mind to go to Brunswick, I could not resist the temptation to pass through Hanover, for whenever I thought of Gabrielle I loved her still.

  • The sentinels at the doors of the palace have their muskets crossed, and ask those who wish to pass through what is their rank.

  • To return to my room I had to pass through Bettina's closet, and seeing her dress handy on the bed I took it into my head to search her pockets.

  • The hole was not wide enough for her head to pass through, otherwise she might have stood erect and been comfortable.

  • If, therefore, an army of the church were now to come to the Holy Land, it were easy to subdue all these countries, or to pass through them.

  • On the journey we had to pass through a hilly country[7] where we encountered high winds, extreme cold, and much snow.

  • After some delay a wicket in the gate was opened, and the chief persons of the party were allowed to pass through it with the prisoner, who was assigned to the custody of a couple of arquebusiers.

  • And stepping to the farther side of the chamber, he touched a small knob in the wall, and a stone flew hack, disclosing an aperture just large enough to allow a man to pass through it.

  • He was challenged by a sentinel at the drawbridge, but on giving the password he was allowed to cross it, and to pass through a gate on the farther side opening upon the park.

  • Her first impulse was to fly to the window; and she was about to pass through it, at the risk of sharing the fate of the unfortunate lady, when her arm was grasped by some one in the act of ascending the ladder from without.

  • Arrived beneath an aperture in the broken roof, he was preparing to pass through it, when he observed a little heap of tiles upon the floor, which appeared to have been recently dislodged.

  • In a few minutes more he had made a breach in the roof wide enough to allow him to pass through.

  • Having made a hole in the wall sufficiently large to pass through, Jack first tossed the bar into the room and then crept after it.

  • The wood-work must be put together with screws, as the screen is too large to pass through a, door.

  • There is one very important matter in regard to the use of furnaces, which is thus stated by Professor Brewer: "I think it is a well-established fact that carbonic oxide will pass through iron.

  • These are the most interesting specimens of native art I had seen; thousands of yards had been accomplished; the mountain streams were made to pass through them.

  • At this time the natives repair to these channels, and making a weir across them with stakes and grass interwoven, leave only one or two small openings for the stream to pass through.

  • Then let it get cold, pass through a hair sieve, and add two eggs, a tablespoonful of grated Parmesan, and very little nutmeg.

  • Velute sauce (No 2) and half a glass of game gravy, boil for a few minutes then blend the contents of the two stewpans, pass through a sieve, and add the juice of a lemon.

  • Pass through a sieve, add a clove of garlic with a cut in it, and boil.

  • Pass through a sieve, cut some small French rolls into slices, spread them with the above mixture, and colour them in the oven.

  • Pass through a sieve and use for masking meat, fowl, fish, &c.

  • A portion of the fibrin-like lining of the aneurism may flake off and drift along in the blood stream, until finally a vessel that is too small for the floating particle or embolus to pass through is reached.

  • It can be readily understood, that when the young is large in proportion to the diameter of the pelvic inlet, it is difficult for it to pass through.

  • The wall of the vessel becomes irritated and inflamed, pieces of fibrin flake off and drift along the blood stream until finally a vessel too small for the floating particle to pass through is reached and the vessel becomes plugged.

  • Yet how the venerable mountains open their ranks for the stripling to pass through.

  • After leaving Red-Rock cut, we pass through a tunnel 600 feet long.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pass through" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boiled yolks; free circulation; much chance; pass after; pass from; pass through; passage from; passage through; passed down; passed from; passed out; passed over; passed them; passed through; passenger cargo; passerine birds; passes over; passing away; passing good; passing the; passion for; passive obedience; passive verb; poor relations; surprise and; times past