Sentence examples for passive word from inspiring English sources

"It's an old-fashioned passive word that I've trained myself out of using".

Mandela was neither some passive, word-spinning proponent of eventual liberation, nor a plaster saint.

Not being a definite lame duck is rather different, ain't it, from definitely not being a lame duck, and, when you hear the deceptively passive words "Nothing is decided," can't you just picture a man in a very nice business suit and an expensive tie sharpening an axe?

These passive words were used to describe even those species in which the males were actively trying to get away.

They unconsciously primed some volunteers with action words, like go andmove, and others with neutral words or passive words like sit.

For example, in this instance, "An error was made…," passive wording softens the meaning.[9].

Ever since his much-criticized remarks about rural folk "clinging to" guns and God — seen as patronizing liberal snobbery — Obama has been passive (his word) on the gun issue.

"Tenancy" may be too passive a word.

The tense is largely passive, long words are preferred to short ones and convoluted locutions are de rigueur.

The word passive gets a bad rap.

During a class that Wallace described in his notes as a "Scam-Fest," he scribbled the phrase: "PASSIVE a big word for IRS".