Sentence examples for event pass from inspiring English sources

Washburn, who is perhaps best known for "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play" (survivors of an apocalyptic event pass the time by trying to reconstruct "Simpsons" episodes), has referred to "Antlia" as her " 'Big Chill' play".

The idea was to step in before Microsoft released a new version of Internet Explorer, due out soon, "rather than to let that event pass, waiting for the big case," A. Douglas Melamed, deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's antitrust division, said.

Mr. Flowers compared attending an Olympic event to catching a flight -- you will drive to a designated parking lot, take a shuttle to the event, pass through a metal detector and have purses and any other bags checked before handing over your ticket at the door.

The event passed off peacefully.

Usually, the annual event passes with little notice.

No specific threat was received by police, and the event passed off entirely peacefully.

Wiltshire Police said the event passed peacefully with just 20 arrests.

The event passed without incident in the area we were responsible for.

But the event passed off happily, with 40,000 revellers bopping away as Merseyside police looked benevolently on.

When Hélène Delangle died in 1984, in a tiny unheated apartment in Nice, the event passed unremarked.

And what are the rules of media discourse that ensure such an event passes without even being noticed?