"has passed around" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something has been shared or circulated among a group of people. For example: "The petition has passed around the office, and now almost everyone has signed it."
After actresses start falling in love with the script David has passed around, there's interest all over town.
Determinate sentencing, on the other hand, reflects a philosophy of deterrence and means that prison time is relatively fixed, whether an inmate behaves well or badly.Since then, California has passed around a thousand laws mandating tougher sentencing.
On a warm weekend, like last weekend, the plants are taken up to the garden shed staging area (read garage) in preparation for outdoor planting after all danger of frost has passed, around the first of May.
If the chain has completely split, simply turn the pedals until the length of the chain has passed around the sprocket and can be removed.
The main concern associated with the first design is the delamination failure at the interface of the fibres that have passed around the eye and the spring body, even though the design can withstand 150 kN static proof load and one million cycles fatigue load.
There are lots of other songs out there -- it's limitless how many beautiful songs we have passed around in this country for many, many years.
And I got direct from the horse's mouth why that happened — people told me "Johnny, dude, we are so glad we can finally buy these calls on CD because our cassettes that we've passed around for eons are completely destroyed".
Mr. Ciccone also produced what he said was a homophobic Christmas poem that someone had passed around to sheriff's deputies over the holidays.
Saracens arrived not sure of their starting line-up because of a flu bug that had passed around the squad throughout the week and had caused the hooker, Schalk Brits, to be detained in hospital for two nights.
The leader of the local chapter of the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International had passed around a picture of Mr. Bush and his cabinet with their heads bowed in prayer, he said.
They have an idea or manuscript they have passed around to various agents and publishers with no luck; they may just want to print a few copies of, say, a memoir for family members; they want to use it in their business as a type of calling card; or they actually want to sell a lot of books and make their living as writers.
