Sentence examples for passage an from inspiring English sources

Congress should make its passage an early order of business.

Prose gives the assault of the passage an even greater impact.

Prom night is supposed to be an American rite of passage, an evening not be missed.

"Divorce is a new passage, an entrance into a new life," he said.

Yet even in this concluding passage, an air of ambiguity and uncertainty lingers.

That's a great passage, an essay in urban typology worthy of Balzac at his keenest (and least windy).

Many of our young men see infection as a right of passage, an inevitable coming of age.

Discovered in 2005, it was a side entrance to the J2 passage, an hour or so down the slope from the original entrance.

With Lincoln's consent and a note of safe passage, an influential conservative Republican, Preston Blair, went through the lines to the Confederate capital at Richmond, Va.

Then Ms. Bachmann negotiated with the Iraqi river police the right of safe passage -- an agreement that repeatedly ran aground.

Vogue magazine has included him in a line-up of new literary talent; his fiction has appeared in Granta, and, young though he is, he has already undergone that quintessential writer's rite of passage - an appearance at the Cheltenham literary festival.