Sentence example with the word 'passively'

passively

Definition adv. in a passive manner

Last update: August 15, 2015


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There is perhaps a certain religious enthusiasm in the thought of being passively determined by Fate, the Universe, Zeus.   [Please select]

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The poor child passively held her peace.   [Please select]

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It is true that Fechner himself is an absolutist in his books, not actively but passively, if I may say so.   [Please select]

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I did so, moving forward passively as it drew me on.   [Please select]

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The will of superiors, and the law as the will of superiors, must be passively yielded to.   [Please select]

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"It is pretty hard luck," Thorpe assented, passively glancing past her at the pale, neutral-tinted wall of mist which obscured the view.   [Please select]

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Dabney, listening to this, found nothing in it to quarrel with--yet somehow remained, if not skeptical, then passively unconvinced.   [Please select]

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She lay passively against him, the tangle of her fair hair spread over his shoulder--too frail and too exhausted for response.   [Please select]

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The resident walked forward and passively submitted to the rough hands placed upon him.   [Please select]

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It was clear that he must not now suffer passively, worrying himself over unsolved questions, but that he must do something, do it at once, and do it quickly.   [Please select]

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And so evident was this, that hardly in one instance did the fallen prince _attempt_ to fly; passively he met the death which was inevitable, in the very spot where ruin had overtaken him.   [Please select]

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