How to Use passage in a Sentence

passage

noun
  • He left after the passage of a few hours.
  • Special ships clear passages through the ice.
  • We squeezed through a narrow passage between the rocks.
  • They controlled the passage of goods through their territory.
  • The medicine makes breathing easier by opening nasal passages.
  • With the passage of time, the number of children suffering with the disease has decreased dramatically.
  • Blow your nose to clear your nasal passages.
    — Megan Nunn, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Some ships have paid Iran for passage.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Some ships have paid Iran for passage.
    — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The airways are the passages that bring air to the lungs.
    — Lauren O'Connor, Health, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Book a passage elsewhere; this one is bad.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And that’s one of the more subtle passages.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Lockwood finds doors and passages where there aren’t any.
    — Eric Olson september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Fish move water across gills rather than air through lungs and nasal passages.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • The passage of the sun across the sky — dawn, day, dusk, night — drives the clock of life.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
  • That changed with the law’s passage in 2010.
    — Eli Cahan, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The passage refers to the rainbow as a sign of God’s covenant.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
  • But passage is still controlled.
    — Sohel Uddin, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Some of the passages in the book were disturbing.
    — Julie K Brown, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • His face was unblemished by the passage of time.
    — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Both bills fell far short of the 60 votes required for passage.
    — Kevin Freking, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Having children [makes you] more aware of the passage of time.
    — María Mérida, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This bill is now placed on its passage, and the machine is open for voting.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • Iran asserts control over the passage of tankers through the strait.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Successive teams leave plaques and badges on a wall that records their passage.
    — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Take, for instance, two brief, lovely passages from the new book.
    — James Wood, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In most cases, the moon's passage across the star cluster will take about two hours.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Or maybe Vianne has somehow changed me, as friends grow alike with the passage of time.
    — Joanne Harris september 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And passage of time, people forget those lessons.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Trump read a passage of Scripture in a video shown at the rally.
    — Tiffany Stanley, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026

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