1. passes
Time passes quickly.
He reflected on how quickly time passes.
Time passes quickly when we are doing something we like.
Not a day passes without traffic accidents.
Wounds heal as time passes.
Taro passes for a scholar.
The girl with fair skin passes for nineteen.
He passes for a learned man in our community.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
This group passes out information on such things as travel and health care, and encourages its members to vote on issues that affect this age group such as legislation regulating the insurance industry, medical care and housing.
Thus passes the glory of the world.
My grandfather is so fond of reading that not a day passes in which he doesn't open a book.
Dogs bark when the caravan passes by.
What passes for leisure in our society is actually time-consuming.
With his muscular constitution he passes for a judoist.
2. passing
A passing car splashed water on us.
They are filibustering to prevent the bill from passing.
He was passing by on his bicycle when he heard a cry for help.
The teacher will give him a passing grade if he shows effort.
Watch out for passing cars.
Word is passing that the Prime Minister is seriously ill.
I'm going to have to start lobbing. I can't win with passing shots alone.
Linda is sixteen, but had no trouble passing for twenty.
"'Tis a passing shame" (Shakespeare).
In this way a passing boat noticed them, thanks to Takeda's scream, and they survived without incident.
I am sure that more flags were burned as a result of Congress passing that law than had ever been burned before.
Our teacher showed us different kinds of flowers and told us in passing that those flowers came from her garden.
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
I think he gets a passing mark as Foreign Minister.
3. goes by
4. pass
Pass the salt, please.
During the test, she felt very sick, so she got a pass to go to the toilet.
You can't enter here unless you have a pass.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
You may be able to pass unnoticed in a city, but in a village that's not possible.
Go straight down the road, and when you pass the traffic light you're there.
I passed all my classes this year but I wanted to get higher marks.
The patient may pass away at any moment.
I got my driver's license on the second time I tried to pass the driver's test.
Pass on, please, and do not obstruct the way.
I have a whole box of cigars ready to pass out when my son is born.
This is a golden opportunity we'd be stupid to pass up. Let's get to work and finish it all in one fell swoop.
Was your mock exam score this time within the pass range for your preferred school?
He killed time in a coffee shop watching girls pass by.
I think you fall well within 'cute girl'. You'd easily go and pass in his judgement.