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Example sentences for "passings"

Lexicographically close words:
passim; passin; passing; passinge; passingly; passio; passion; passional; passionate; passionately
  1. Why should the empty stair seem to remember so much, to suggest so much, of a life that came to it only in fitful passings and that left nothing of itself behind?

  2. Two half passings make a whole or «double passing».

  3. It was here in the midst of the noiseless passings of Shima, watching Harry's suspicious glances flashing across the table at her strange disorder, that the idea occurred to her of a way out of it.

  4. After a while she could hear him below, the tink of breakfast cutlery and the little passings in and out of Lena through the swinging pantry door.

  5. Vague, indeterminate passings of figures through a fluid of unreality, like submarine life behind glass.

  6. Her mother knew its times and seasons, and its passings into abeyance, not into extinction.


  7. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.