How to use "passing" in a sentence

Sentences

As the carriage was passing us, he waved his arm at me

Then one day, as he was passing, thinking about nothing in particular, the girl looked up at him and their eyes met

He did not know what part of the city he was passing under or how far he had come

If the government finds out that messages are getting through the force field and passing across the city boundary, there could be big trouble."

Time should have put even more distance between her and the anguish, but instead the passing days were bringing her around full circle in her grief

They crossed the room, passing the guard who was bound and gagged in his chair

Overhead the clouds were passing fast, mixed here and there with clouds of black and red smoke, although no wind moved the bushes around me

One ship was passing behind another; many were turning

I remember a pile of three broken bicycles, flattened by the wheels of passing carts