Sentence examples for passing remarks from inspiring English sources
The phrase "passing remarks" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to casual or offhand comments made about something or someone. Example: "During the meeting, he made several passing remarks about the new project that caught everyone's attention."
People have been staring and passing remarks ever since the work began.
A few passing remarks take note of how, over the years, he has found it ever harder to write; and the passing remarks become insistent.
They were passing remarks back and forth the way they do and laughing that wicked way they have.
Though she had felt, even then, that the brass would win out in the end and the charm sour into his father's talent for passing remarks.
There were two baths, and the nurse would stand in the middle and, all the time, she'd be passing remarks about your body.
In an interview set up by Mr. Zuckerman, Mr. Clinton made passing remarks about the summit talks, violating a news blackout that the White House itself had set.
The death of a circus elephant shapes generations of a small town; a passing remark ruins a plotted-out life.
A passing remark from the new American ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, prompted a rebuke from her Iranian counterpart.
In a press release Okairos said the deal included a "small number of early-stage assets".That passing remark turned out to be a big deal.
That's why I was surprised to see my friendly sparring partner, Emily Nussbaum, in her splendidly polemical post last week, offer up my passing remark on the subject.
It was a passing remark rather than a major point, and the post itself was intended as an undogmatic reflection on prejudice rather than an argument, but perhaps I should clarify what I meant.The piece did not claim as some commenters seem to have inferred that all criticism of Israel was anti-Semitic.
