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Example sentences for "passing away"

  • The Indian's glory is passing away; they are as the setting sun; while the white man is as the sun rising in all his power.

  • The day of the Dahcotah is far spent; to quote the language of a Chippeway chief, "The Indian's glory is passing away.

  • As the day of these forgotten ones is passing away, so is ours.

  • His widow survived him for only a brief period, passing away in 1879.

  • There the father spent his entire life, passing away in 1863, when his son Harvey was but six years of age.

  • There is good reason to think, however, that the period of these rapid fluctuations is passing away.

  • The age of isolation and divergent evolution is passing away, and that of international association and convergent social evolution has begun.

  • Week after week she lingered, almost imperceptibly fading, passing away like a soft rolling cloud that melts into the sky.

  • They saw the buffalo, the only means of their support, passing away.

  • They saw the food supply, the buffalo, passing away, and they were anxious and distressed.

  • The Indians are fully aware that their old mode of life is passing away.

  • Their present mode of living is passing away; the Indians are tractable, docile and willing to learn.

  • Are there better days yet to come in the new China that is to take the place of old China, which is passing away even as we talk about it?

  • Do they feel that the Gaul is at the gates, and that the China of their childhood is passing away?

  • The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.

  • And the world is passing away, and the lust thereof; but he that does the will of God abides forever.

  • Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light now shines.

  • Passing Away of the Greatest Holy Leaf The Guardian wishes me also to thank you for your kind words of sympathy in connection with the passing away of the Greatest Holy Leaf.

  • Passing away, saith the World, passing away: Chances, beauty and youth sapped day by day: Thy life never continueth in one stay.

  • Passing away, we noted how its clear outlines stood out against the blue sky of the South, whilst beyond it stretched the sapphire waters of the Levant.

  • Passing away' is not written on the earth, which is still God's green footstool; the grass was not greener nor the flowers sweeter when man was first made out of clay, and the breath of life breathed into his nostrils.

  • She ever looked upon the fashions of this world as passing away, and never conformed to them, or the manners of the world; but taking the holy word of God for her example, endeavored to imbibe its precepts, and practice its requirements.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passing away" 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:
    another nature; body could; comparatively early; comparatively short; fear nothing; force equal; fully convinced; great renown; ideal beauty; live like; organic nature; passing away; passing events; passing from; passing over; passing the; passing through; passing vessel; prairie schooner; scarcely need; social service; spiritual guide; you have been told; you really; you wanted; your eyes