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PASS BY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Move past
Example:
One line of soldiers surpassed the other
Synonyms:
go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass by" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass by"):
skirt (pass around or about; move along the border)
run by (pass by while running)
fly by (pass by while flying)
fly by; whisk by; zip by (move by very quickly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
These cars won't pass by
Context examples:
If the smaller cluster makes a close pass by the central core, the gravitational attraction between both structures causes the gas in the core to slosh around like wine swirled in a glass.
(Scientists Surprised by Relentless Cosmic Cold Front, NASA)
Laurie leisurely departed to recover the lost property, and Jo bundled up her braids, hoping no one would pass by till she was tidy again.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But when she drew nearer, and I saw her blue eyes looking bluer, and her dimpled face looking brighter, and her whole self prettier and gayer, a curious feeling came over me that made me pretend not to know her, and pass by as if I were looking at something a long way off.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But Sunday made her a very creditable and tolerably cheerful-looking Mrs. Price, coming abroad with a fine family of children, feeling a little respite of her weekly cares, and only discomposed if she saw her boys run into danger, or Rebecca pass by with a flower in her hat.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Alas! sighed she, if any of my father’s court should pass by and see me standing in the market, how they will laugh at me!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.'
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Nothing of the sort had ever occurred before to any young ladies in the place, within her memory; no rencontre, no alarm of the kind;—and now it had happened to the very person, and at the very hour, when the other very person was chancing to pass by to rescue her!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
What Mr. Elton had learned from the ostler on the subject, being the accumulation of the ostler's own knowledge, and the knowledge of the servants at Randalls, was, that a messenger had come over from Richmond soon after the return of the party from Box Hill—which messenger, however, had been no more than was expected; and that Mr. Churchill had sent his nephew a few lines, containing, upon the whole, a tolerable account of Mrs. Churchill, and only wishing him not to delay coming back beyond the next morning early; but that Mr. Frank Churchill having resolved to go home directly, without waiting at all, and his horse seeming to have got a cold, Tom had been sent off immediately for the Crown chaise, and the ostler had stood out and seen it pass by, the boy going a good pace, and driving very steady.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
