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Example sentences for "passports"

Lexicographically close words:
passivity; passle; passon; passovers; passport; passu; passus; passuum; password; passwords
  1. Should the army under Lieutenant-General Burgoyne find it necessary to send for their clothing and other baggage to Canada, they are permitted to do it in the most convenient manner, and the necessary passports granted for that purpose.

  2. Also, I knew that although no passports are required in England, they still know pretty well what is going on, especially in regard to foreigners.

  3. Brains, ability, and thorough scientific knowledge are the only passports for entrance in the Grosser General Stab, the General Staff of the German Empire.

  4. De Leyda replied that he was asking from his king his two eyes, and as Cromwell would not concede either point, he demanded his passports in June, 1654, and took his leave.

  5. At the same time there remains the fact that you have entered Brazil without passports or other necessary papers, a matter which will have to be considered by the authorities.

  6. Mr. Hewson had obtained passports for them, and they went on next morning by diligence to Boulogne.

  7. Not Colonel Baron only, but his wife also, by this time regretted greatly not having sent Roy home at the first, when passports had been more readily granted.

  8. One day later, passports being still withheld, Roy started, in company with his parents and Denham, on the cold and dismal journey to Verdun.

  9. They passed out of Rome by the Porta San Giovanni, where their passports received a visto; and this being finished, again started, the vettura soon reaching the Campagna.

  10. The countess was with him, and, after great trouble, he got passports for both, and hurried to the city barrier.

  11. What passports or certificates has he taken in that place?

  12. He assured the anxious inquirers that, even if they got into Russia, their passports would be immediately demanded, and that no one could remain in any city there over night without one.

  13. What did you say anything to him about the passports for?

  14. The fact is, all the passports are on board the ship.

  15. No; and passports must be visé by the Russian consul before we can issue a ticket.

  16. The Portuguese authorities took the matter in hand, and persons attempting to go without passports were promptly sent back.

  17. Under the protests of the British Government, however, orders arrived from Lisbon which revived an old law requiring all persons leaving Portuguese territory to obtain passports signed by the Governor-general.

  18. Passengers arriving by German and other steamers were refused passports upon the instance of the British consul where there was a strong suspicion that they were entering the Transvaal for purposes hostile to Great Britain.

  19. We had to go and have our passports inspected by the English, French, and Italian consuls; we got some money changed and did some shopping.

  20. We had our passports seen, and also paid a visit to the police station to obtain a pass to Boulogne.

  21. We have already at the station three gentlemen whose passports are under examination, who are on their way to her majesty.

  22. The passports for the Danish envoys to this convention were issued by Gustavus on the spot.

  23. He was not, however, to be allured by passports or even terrified by threats.

  24. About this time, certainly, new regulations were made with regard to the passports for natives, and many of the old and most obnoxious ones were altered.

  25. Even now, both foreigners and natives could only get passports from one city to another; and thus Cousin Giles had taken out one for Moscow, but would be obliged then to take another to go farther into the interior.

  26. We read the foregoing and sent for passports before we bought our steamship tickets.

  27. I said to one banker: "We have our passports in case you require any identification.

  28. We never could find a banker who wanted to look at our passports or who could be induced to take so much as a glance at them.

  29. In the exceptional cases a display of his Chinese passports sufficed to quickly change the demeanor of the mandarins; while a few calm words of rebuke upon their want of politeness generally caused popular mobs to disperse abashed.

  30. With proper passports the missionaries set off, and arrived in safety at one of their principal towns.

  31. Under the existing laws, if a free coloured man travels without passports certifying his right to his liberty, he is generally apprehended; and frequently plunged into slavery, by the operation of the laws.

  32. Lord Sackville, who received his passports in 1888 from the United States of America for an alleged interference in the Presidential election.

  33. Without being recalled, an envoy may on his own account ask for his passports and depart in consequence of ill-treatment by the receiving State.

  34. Diplomatic relations between France and the Holy See had come to an end in 1905 by France recalling her envoy at the Vatican and at the same time sending the passports to Lorenzelli, the Papal Nuncio in Paris.

  35. It is usual to provide couriers with special passports for the purpose of their legitimation.

  36. A mission may terminate, further, through the delivery of his passports to an envoy by the receiving State.

  37. In exchange for the Letter of Recall the envoy receives his passports and a so-called Lettre de recreance, a letter in which the head of the receiving State (or the Foreign Secretary) acknowledges the Letter of Recall.

  38. Faltot demanded passports in blank, not for himself, but for some of his officers of foreign nationality, and on the refusal of the Versaillese, Faltot committed the fault of applying to the Germans.

  39. Passports had to be renewed and vised at Versailles.

  40. Senator Lacour obtained the necessary passports and Desnoyers gave his wife her orders in a tone that admitted of no remonstrance.

  41. One has to keep showing passports all the time in order that the police may be sure that they have not discovered a deserter.

  42. My plan was to find some sheltering door, or even corner, where I could remain until the others had presented their passports and were beginning to return, then join them and take my seat as before.

  43. One by one the passports were handed up to him until he held six in his hand.

  44. No guards were stationed on the platform; so I stepped out, and before me stood the train for Aix, into which my fellow-passengers were entering, some of them still holding their passports in their hands.

  45. Influenced by this letter and several facts which had come under our notice proving the uncertainty of all things, and especially of travel in France, we saw that our passports were made officially correct.

  46. During that long wait which the train used to make in the old Austrian times at Peschiera, while the police authorities viséd the passports of those about to cross the frontier, Elmore continued perpetually alert.

  47. It was nine o'clock one night when they reached Salzburg; and when their baggage had been visited and their passports examined, they had still half an hour to wait before the train went on.


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