Sentence examples for passage on a from inspiring English sources

But the effort of making sense out of something that was at first glance indecipherable satisfied her, as did the slowness of the activity: an hour or two would pass as she made her way through one passage on a war; a day that would have otherwise been long was shortened.

In picturesque Rockland, $23 bought me one-way passage on a small ferry.

Bowman, Levine, Waite, and Gendron (2010) conducted a reading experiment involving undergraduates asked to read a 3828-word passage on a computer monitor, split in three groups: one engaged in instant messaging (IM) before reading the passage, a second group engaged in IM while reading the passage and a third group who did not engage in IM at all.

Passage on a vote of 407 to 19 emerged as one area of agreement between President Obama and Republicans in the fight against Islamic State terrorism.

Book passage on a tramp steamer.

They booked passage on a small trading boat.

They reached the port town and made arrangements for passage on a ship to Africa.

The narrator obtains passage on a boat named Bird of the River.

Throughout the 1990s Tito negotiated with space agencies in Moscow before securing passage on a 2001 mission to the space station Mir at the cost of $20 million.

We booked a passage on a sailboat fittingly named the Beagle, and we read Darwin's 'The Voyage of the Beagle' while exploring the Galápagos.

The best hunting grounds that I know in London are Portobello Market on a Friday, Broadway Market on a Saturday and Camden Passage on a Wednesday.