Sentence examples for pass the salt from inspiring English sources

Please pass the salt.

Then he asks me to pass the salt.

My mother is there with me whenever someone asks me to pass the salt.

I looked at her and said, Could you please pass the salt?

If I, say, ask someone to pass the salt, is that technically an interview?

Superstition: I have one superstition left over from my mother that you are never supposed to pass the salt.

The sergeant sat by himself in the teachers' cafeteria, hoping someone would say something, even if it was just "please pass the salt".

If your uncle is telling a long story at dinner, you may cut in to ask him to pass the salt.

In turn, Sharapova was harnessing that familiar, demure address – arching with all the venom of a swan asking another swan to pass the salt – to increasingly violent effect.

To pass the salt: A study published today in the American Journal of Hypertension calls into question the long-held link between salt consumption and heart disease.

After a month, my own speech became functional – "Could you pass the salt?" "Shall we go for a walk?" – but I couldn't have a conversation.