How to Use passenger in a Sentence

passenger

noun
  • There were two passengers in the car in addition to the driver.
  • There's no room for passengers on this project; everybody must do his share of the work.
  • The passenger gave the deputy a false name.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The ship had no passengers on it.
    — Will Clark, NBC news, 17 Apr. 2026
  • There were two passengers on board each plane.
    — Chloe Mayer john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Third, passengers can choose not to fly.
    — Joe Kiani, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In that case, passengers in the back of the plane might get off fastest!
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Or maybe passenger princess is fear.
    — Gerrick Kennedy, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The man's back is pinned against the passenger seat, and his eyes are squeezed shut.
    — John Blake, CNN, 11 June 2022
  • Were all the Lost passengers dead the whole time?
    — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
  • There was a passenger in the front seat who threw hot coffee on her.
    — cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
  • There were no other passengers in the car at the time of the crash.
    — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • There were two cracks in the windshield on the passenger side.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
  • A bit subdued and a bit of a passenger.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The passenger who died was a 22-year-old man.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • When not in use, this sits above rear seat passengers in the ceiling.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Many passengers don't know this.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 24 May 2026
  • The other passengers were yelling at him to stop.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • There should have been a toy steering wheel in the passenger seat the whole time.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2022
  • The passengers had to self-eject from the speeding cab.
    — Andrea Sachs The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026
  • Woods was alone in the car and crawled out of the passenger door after the crash.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But some passengers may take them off again while waiting to board their flight.
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Each carried one passenger in the back seat, all of them busy on their phones.
    — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Never ride with more passengers than there are seats.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • At last, after more than five weeks on board, some passengers are back on dry land.
    — Melissa Bell, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
  • Her passenger, a 21-year-old man, was killed.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The two passengers were released at the scene.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • At least one of the passengers was pregnant.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • There were no other passengers on the plane.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The car had been struck by at least a dozen bullets, most of them on the passenger’s side.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 30 Oct. 2022

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