Sentence examples for make a passing from inspiring English sources

The male-female workplace dynamic has been so thoroughly strip-mined that all you have to do these days is make a passing reference to it.

Shamelessly flirtatious, she couldn't help make a passing remark when she spotted David Patrick Columbia, a former editor of Avenue magazine.

Ian Harte has not been on best form with his set pieces, although the latest did at least make a passing impression of threat as it fizzed wide.

But if it's the latter, then states could probably stick with the old deathly recipe, as long as someone on the execution team had the fortitude, after administering the first drug, to shake the inmate or look in his eyes, or otherwise make a passing attempt to see if the anesthetic took.

A couple of weeks ago he had the temerity to make a passing reference in his sermon at the Queen's diamond jubilee service in St Paul's cathedral to the greed of City bankers and people's unjustified fear of strangers and was immediately pounced upon by the Daily Mail – who else? – for hijacking the ceremony to make "a thinly veiled attack on a huge swath of the public".

Rare is the theorist who does not at least make a passing reference to utilitas socially defined or otherwise.

Why didn't he ever make a pass at her?

Not many players can make a pass like that.

Did Nico ever make a pass at him?

Should I make a pass at her? Yes.

When you make a pass, their movement is instinctive.