Sentence examples for seemed passive from inspiring English sources

If anything, he seemed passive.

Waiting seemed "passive," several said.

But mainly he seemed passive and withdrawn.

While she stood still, she seemed passive, perhaps prisonerlike.

Even when the Devils scored, they seemed passive.

I thought she seemed passive, and timid, but I was considerably off the mark.

Still, referring to a trait as mystical and unquantifiable as "clutch" rarely leads anywhere constructive (does such a thing even exist?), and this public and coldly analytical dissection of his teammate's performance seemed passive-aggressive; why talk to a guy through the press when you stand next to him in the huddle?

A fair number seemed passive-aggressively horrified.

The task is overwhelming; Haitian authorities seem passive.

Whites in Ms. Walker's art often seem passive by comparison, but racial fates are intertwined.

"In Tetrahymena, the histones did not seem passive at all," he said.