Sentence examples for passing someone from inspiring English sources

Every interaction with another person involves a dance of expectation, even when you're just passing someone in the street.

Plagiarism is the dishonorable act of passing someone else's words off as your own, whether or not the material is published.

Plagiarism is passing someone else's words off as your own; Hari was passing off the words of another person as their own.

Passing someone on the street is one thing, but you have to do it in stores as well, not just to the employees who greet you at the door but to your fellow-shoppers in aisle three.

The track is, fittingly, a great song to run to – all grungy guitars, catchy choruses and a beat that's exactly the pace you jog at when you're passing someone you know – AKA a bit faster than normal, AKA a speed that's definitely not sustainable for longer than three minutes.

The proximity required by a meal – something about passing someone dishes, unfurling your napkin at the same time, having to speak – makes it harder to continue to cling to the belief that the outsiders we'd previously spotted only in the train or shops and who wear unusual clothes and speak in distinctive accents are inhuman and deserve to be sent away.

What do you do when you pass someone sleeping rough?

You seldom pass someone without the customary "jambo" (hello) greeting.

When we passed someone I knew, I stopped to talk and my mate walked ahead.

Each time a police cruiser passed, someone in the game room screamed a curse.

So, next time you pass someone sleeping rough remember Mark or Paul, and stop and ask: 'What's your story?' The chances are you'll be surprised.