Sentence examples for our passages from inspiring English sources
Her hand shows not only in choices like "repose" for "descanso" ("rest") and "pondering" for "repasando" ("re-examining"), but also in a number of shrewd shifts from the Spanish, as when "me había permitido entender" ("had allowed me to understand") becomes "vouchsafed to me" and "nuestros pasos por las grandes capitales" ("our passages through the great capitals") becomes "our sojourns".
The reality is that Groton was, in many ways, a charmed place full of not only talented students but also wise teachers and administrators who tried harder than I appreciated at the time to smooth our passages to adulthood.
We followed the same route for our first trip, from the UK to Asia, although in the year between our passages Somali piracy had made the Indian Ocean too dangerous for passengers – even intrepid journalists ("intrepid", is, oddly, an adjective that is applied to writers who go to sea on container ships, though not to the 1.25 million seafarers who do it for a – very dangerous – living).
Note that we did not tell the evaluators that our passages were retrieved from the Internet.
Our passages would end with the tag 'like Carter and Cash' or some variation of that.
They were mercury-still for our passage.
The police ahead block side roads for our passage.
Professor Oshinsky said: "This was essentially our passage to adulthood.
Our passage through customs at Ben-Gurion Airport took no longer than did our passage through customs at Newark.
To smooth our passage we thought a letter from the Foreign Office (FCO) would assist.
