The phrase "as it passed through" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the movement or transition of something through a particular space or medium.
Example: "The light refracted beautifully as it passed through the prism, creating a spectrum of colors."
Alternatives: "as it moved through" or "while it traversed".
This squall line continued to renew its energy as it passed through the Midwest, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England, causing wind and water damage, and dumping 6 inches of snow in central and eastern Massachusetts.
That wavelength, being both twice the size of the teeth and of the distance between them, meant the phase of the light and thus of its associated electric field was rotated by 180° as it passed through each cavity.
The hurricane first brushed the Lesser Antilles on August 17, 2007, and as it passed through the interior of the Caribbean its outer rain bands swept over the Greater Antilles.
Its super-sensitive instrumentation was able to detect the disturbance as it passed through the thin wisps of air still present 255km above the Earth.
After resuming its journey, the ship was wrecked in a sudden storm as it passed through the narrows of Porto Venere, north of La Spezia on the coast of Liguria.
His dead colleague's mother less than helpfully told him it slowed down as it passed through her son's body.
At a track near his home, he would sneak into races by lying on the running board of a car as it passed through the ticket gate.
The outside has a glossy black skin, seared by a fireball of heat as it passed through the Earth's atmosphere last July 18.
Vern Campbell, the keeper of the Maxwell registry, saw the car as it passed through Ohio and was impressed by Mr. Anderson's work.
The United Nations vehicle came under fire as it passed through Gadap, a neighborhood on the northwestern outskirts of Karachi, early on Tuesday.
Video captured Enzo Cacialli jogging alongside the famous Pope-mobile as it passed through Naples and triumphantly handing the Pontiff a specially created pizza.
