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Example sentences for "passing from"

  • She was very gracious to her guests, passing from one to another with a kindly word to all.

  • And, sir, passing from considerations of public honor, there are many reasons of public policy which forbid the repeal of the act of 1875.

  • Sainte-Croix shuddered anew, passing from a supernatural vision to a horrible reality.

  • Martins placed some caterpillars on a tree, and those which fell were not able to remount and perished of hunger; they were even incapable of passing from leaf to leaf" (p.

  • On passing from spoken to written language, we come upon several classes of facts, having similar implications.

  • It renders /less service/ in passing from hand to hand, it has less /value/.

  • In England this rock is generally of a yellowish colour; but it varies greatly in mineralogical character, passing from an earthy state to a white compact stone of great hardness.

  • Figure 298 will give the reader an idea of the configuration of the surface now alluded to, such as may be seen in passing from London to Cheltenham, or in other parallel lines, from east to west, in the southern part of England.

  • Such veins appear to have once been chinks or small cavities, caused, like cracks in clay, by the shrinking of the mass, during desiccation, or in passing from a higher to a lower temperature.

  • We seem to see things coming into being and passing from it; but reflection tells us that decease and growth only mean a new aggregation (sugkrisis) and disruption (diakrisis.

  • Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.

  • The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.

  • Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

  • Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.

  • In passing from aquatic to terrestrial life the horny scales were further developed, and the bony scales degenerated in most of the reptiles.

  • Observation proves that they interact, but in passing from one to the other, we meet a blank which mechanical deduction is unable to fill.

  • Passing from plants to animals, we find that the source of motive power just referred to is also the source of muscular power.

  • Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.

  • Defn: Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey.

  • Note: The on-glide of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade in passing to it, the off-glide, one made in passing from it.

  • In passing from hand to hand, they merely exchanged one condition of slavery for another.

  • In passing from a free to a slave State, the most casual observer is struck with the contrast.

  • Of course, in passing from country to country, one needs to use prudence in drinking the water, as in other changes of diet, but the danger from that source is greatly exaggerated.

  • We have been these many days among the Alps, passing from Chamouni to the Bernese Oberland, and now we must descend into the plains.

  • Passing from Tarbet, we entered the grand and beautiful pass of Glencoe,--sublime with purple shadows with bright lights between, and in one place showing an exquisitely silent and lonely little lake.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passing from" 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:
    collected over; dear maid; deep gorge; executive power; five parts; four sides; head like; indirect questions; lost souls; passing away; passing from; passing good; passing the; passing vessel; quite cold; reminded himself; sandy loam; similar effect; then look; thick wood; twenty shillings; what cases; when behold; wise man; wooden handle; would meet