Sentence examples for was passing for from inspiring English sources

If he was passing for white, perhaps he understood that the alternative was passing for black.

Unlike the maligned mulattoes of old, Obama wasn't passing for white — he was passing for mixed.

I let boys feel them up when I was getting off with them, believing that the padding was passing for real body, trusting they couldn't tell the difference.

Oddly, even though his play this season led to his benching, he was passing for the highest completion percentage of his career, 64.6percentt.

Mr. Broyard was born black but was passing for white when he joined The New York Times as a book critic 30 years ago.

While she used to feel she was "passing" for white ("I heard a racist conversation at a dinner party; it made me feel like a spy"), she met resentment in the Caribbean during 1970s black power from those "more worried at my passing myself off as black".

In 1401 the first English statute was passed for the burning of heretics.

"We are therefore proud to declare that Alan Turing's test was passed for the first time".

The sex purchase act was not passed for them; it was passed for the majority of women who suffer from prostitution.

Then the catalyst was cooled to 100 °C under He flow and pure C2H4 was passed for 1 h at 100 °C.

The He gas was then replaced by NH3 which was passed for 10 min at the flow rate of 80mL/minn.