Sentence examples for merely passing through from inspiring English sources
Everyone – protesters and reporters, movie actors and star-crossed lovers – is merely passing through, temporary cast-members in a play called Fleeting.
Even though he is a "quick study", there is a danger that he will be another defence secretary who is merely passing through rather than one with a long-term vision of what he wants to achieve.
The instrument is the Direct Air Transit Visa (DATV) required by citizens of 47 countries -- of which only four are from 'white' countries -- for merely passing through a British port or airport.
His speeding trains bring the boys together, while at the same time reminding us that they (and their friends, and perhaps the rest of us too) are merely passing through, zipping off on their own tracks across the world.
Other countries had been ready to manage migrants when they were merely passing through, but, as soon as they grasped that the flow might stop, leaving them with large numbers to care for, collective panic set in.
What had not been announced before was a meeting with the ousted Afghan president, Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was supposedly merely passing through on his way to a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic States in Turkmenistan.The three leaders talked all night, in time-honoured Afghan tradition.
Italy is less used to handling immigration, whether legal or illegal, than most other EU countries; for many years it allowed people to enter fairly freely in the expectation that most would merely pass through on their way to their final destination, Germany or elsewhere in northern Europe.
During the Bloomberg era, which it now officially seems appropriate to talk about in the past tense, the term global city came into wide use to describe a New York not where strivers from around the world come to settle, but where the wealthy from London or Moscow or Mumbai merely pass through in a fever of luxury acquisition.
They are just passing through".
Are they just passing through?
