Sentence examples for mostly passive from inspiring English sources
"They were mostly passive observers.
(I assumed that his knowledge of English was, like the knowledge of dead languages, a mostly passive one).
The limited partners are mostly passive and not engaged in the active management of the fund's portfolio companies.
The Kremlin can sentence him to a long prison term, but doing so might strengthen the mostly passive discontent in Russia and reduce voter turnout.
In the Triassic period that followed, the Earth's ecosystem shifted from mostly passive creatures like the clamlike brachiopods to more active predators that searched for their food.
Mr. Alban's quiet Cleo, withdrawn behind eyes that squint at the world with wary distrust, is likewise a mostly passive figure.
But in this version, Alexander is mostly a passive observer; all of his trips can't change anything until he gets to the distant future.
The way we talk about the snow — mostly in passive verbs — expresses the general feeling of impotence and powerlessness produced by the current weather pattern.
Franz himself, even in his memories, is mostly a passive figure, riffing on nineteenth-century archaeologists or Proust's debt to "A Thousand and One Nights".
The family does not have a seat on the Disney board and has remained mostly a passive investor, a spokesman for Sid Bass said.
Elizabeth is supposed to be one of those, but her relentlessness is apparently of the slow-developing variety, because in the first two episodes, she is mostly a passive love object.
