Sentence examples for they passed up from inspiring English sources
They passed up open shots.
They passed up a lot of shots.
By suspending four kindergarten students for pretend gunplay, they passed up a wonderful "teachable moment".
But they passed up the opportunity to execute an unprecedented triple play involving teams in three cities and two countries.
Goodness knows what they could achieve if they passed up on tea too.. 3.32pm GMT And it's all over.
They passed up opportunities to strip the bill of provisions unrelated to its primary purpose of paying for hurricane relief and military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They pass up quiet nights at home with their women and wait in their coops, staring at the sky.
Tangibility may be more important than we suspect in determining which long-term investments households make and which they pass up.
Writer was told that the Egyptians and most other Arabs live in a fantasy world of self-perpetuating lies, which grow in exaggeration as they pass up the chain of command.
There are digressions on the chemistry of toxins "adsorbed" (a nice word which means sticking to the outside of, rather than sucked into) by pelagic plastic – and, alarmingly, the way they bio-accumulate as they pass up the food chain.
They say things like, "Yul Brenner was a pigeon man" or "That bird of yours pretty much walked home, didn't he?" When their pigeons are flying, they pass up weddings and funerals.
