How to use "pass" in a sentence

The long, boring hours of the night pass slowly by

When I did this last night, the time seemed to pass more slowly

This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality

Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath?

He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope - fervently do we pray - that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away

Everybody stood to one side to let him pass as he made his way towards the door

Taking a deep breath, he rose and was going to pass the bench for a third time when he stopped

Sometimes he saw a shadow pass in front of a lamp, and his heart beat faster.

He took the thirty francs and, helping Valjean to lift Marius on to his shoulders, he put the key in the lock and opened the gate just wide enough for Valjean to pass through

Outside we hear the crowd cheer, and we see the first runners pass by

"Can you pass me over the bag? Then you can come and sit here next to me," he says as casually as he can.

The only thing that made the time pass more quickly was her family's dream of the world outside

Going to and from the showroom, the crowd had to pass all the craps tables and blackjack tables and roulette wheels and glittering ranks of slot machines, and that was where the profit was made

She was tall, slender, striking, fifty-five years old but able to pass for a well-preserved forty.

And when all of a sudden someone does hit it big, especially on a slot machine where it can happen in a flash, they're so surprised they pass out

Her eyes were red, but she wouldn't pass for Dracula

Tina felt as if they had talked without pause all evening, speaking with quiet urgency, as if each had a vast quantity of earthshakingly important information that he must pass on to the other before they parted

They looked and acted like organization men, even though the big one was rough enough at the edges to pass for a common thug

"And by then he was able to pass the disease on to them," Tina said as she finished bundling Danny into the blanket.

I saw a line of green fire pass through the moving clouds and into the field to my left

I go out into the Byfleet Road, and vehicles pass me, a boy on a bicycle, children going to school - and suddenly they become strange and unreal, and I hurry on again with the soldier through the hot, dangerous silence