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Grammar : Verb
Spell : pas, pahs
Phonetic Transcription : pæs, pɑs



Definition of pass along

Origin :
  • "written permission to pass into, or through, a place," 1590s, from pass (v.). Sense of "ticket for a free ride or admission" is first found 1838. Colloquial make a pass "offer an amorous advance" first recorded 1928, perhaps from a sporting sense. Phrase come to pass (late 15c.) uses the word with a sense of "completion, accomplishment."
  • As in lead : verb guide physically
  • As in reach : verb stretch to; touch
Example sentences :
  • There was another interruption, to enable a motor-cyclist to pass along.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • This will insure attention and silence, and my words will be heard as we pass along.
  • Extract from : « The Cat of Bubastes » by G. A. Henty
  • News of these events was now beginning to pass along the line ahead.
  • Extract from : « Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail » by Ezra Meeker
  • Pass along at once, and find your quarters and begin to unpack.
  • Extract from : « A harum-scarum schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil
  • They fill the rooms, and as you pass along the streets they rise in clouds.
  • Extract from : « A Boy's Voyage Round the World » by The Son of Samuel Smiles
  • It's almost like an inheritance, something you can pass along.
  • Extract from : « Blue Bonnet in Boston » by Caroline E. Jacobs
  • And the quantities of carriages which pass along the street!
  • Extract from : « Poor Folk » by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Various groups from time to time continued to pass along the thoroughfare.
  • Extract from : « Harold, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Should you pass along that lonely creek and venture to call a cheery “Hallo!”
  • Extract from : « Blue Ridge Country » by Jean Thomas
  • To read their names as you pass along is a lesson in Saxon genealogy.
  • Extract from : « A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia » by Walter White

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