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    Use "passive" in a sentence

    passive example sentences

    passive


    1. Modern cults appear to be different in many ways, but actually they are all the same: they all trumpet forth the “breaking of the Ego” with a view to creating obedient, passive citizens who are always ready to carry out any order without thinking or asking questions


    2. Apollo's anger has been passive ever since he had his first enchanted meeting with the pretty girl, but now that all eroded in mentioning of his father


    3. "Well it does have quite a few photosynthetic cells and can maintain its life in a passive float for years without prey


    4. The curtains in the bay window are closed but the tell-tale haze of passive entertainment sparks through the cracks


    5. Harry was becoming well-informed, but more importantly to him, Kaitlyn was exerting herself beyond her habitual passive nature and carrying Chloe along in her train


    6. She was probably the most passive person around, being yaaged-out most of the time


    7. He knew that in Dempalan times there was a method of lighting the towers without Kortrax, but most of the time today they functioned in only their most basic relay capacity, something that had been called Passive Diagnostic Mode when they were new


    8. Johnson was not so passive


    9. Your objective may be to create a recurring passive income stream


    10. Joe remained faithful to his wife and attentive to his children, but he carried out his assumed conjugal obligations more by a passive inertia than with the throbbing, emotional energy that had formerly been present

    11. She still loved her husband and sub-consciously transferred her own unfulfilled ambitions and desires to her children, having become enveloped in a kind of melancholic state of passive inertia, with the throbbing, emotional energy that had formerly been present slowly dissipating into oblivion


    12. Instead of being passive until a need arises, the person may start to explore, without consciously intending to satisfy any basic need


    13. Use active verbs instead of passive verbs


    14. Computer programs are useful for pointing out passive sentences, subject-verb agreement problems etc


    15. Have you used passive sentences that could be changed to active ones?


    16. Our country seeks passive solutions, but not when it comes to holding two of their own at gunpoint


    17. The practice of one teacher addressing passive listeners


    18. In the hotel Lounge she had been a passive audience to the conversation


    19. were not passive in their relationship with the Confederate


    20. ‖ 4) Lastly and most importantly, be passive on the

    21. ‖ Such carefree attitudes conveyed by teachers and school administrators oftentimes serve as self-fulfilling prophecies; whose (passive) acceptance continues to (willingly) lend its moral support to sexual tolerance; notwithstanding the waving of white flags seeking to override parental authority by withdrawing the support of schools that consider it their public duty to ―properly‖ instruct their (own) children


    22. Grace is not passive


    23. They used sonar-tripped cameras, with passive infrared capability


    24. “Essentially the female role is passive, and the male role is active, even invasive


    25. “Then you were throwing yourself on a sword, then madly, passionate in love, then completely heartbroken, heartbroken as if your whole world was destroyed, and now you are a content, passive and obedient slave


    26. The Project besides applying the solution, will maintain the process in a continuous way, because all will participate of way active or passive in the activities to generate wealth with equable distribution through the income


    27. Emphasize that in that astronomical value was not yet incorporated the value of the existent wealth and the potential wealth that will be computed by the Coordenational Structure with the mensuration of the wealth and actuation activates or passive of the beneficent people and beneficiaries


    28. With that, it corrects the flaw of the current economic model, generating income mainly for the billion of excluded human beings through the passive activities or active activities that exist in any country, without breaking its economy, without any capital loss or work and without there is vinculum to the employment


    29. It does with that all the socioeconomic agents act in way active or passive in this innovative Coordenational Structure that forms the global network of Bank3Sectors


    30. “There are, broadly speaking, two types of hypnosis: command or authoritative hypnosis, used by stage hypnotists, and passive or clinical hypnosis

    31. In the practice of medicine, the type of hypnosis generally used is passive


    32. The patient is assisted to go into hypnosis entirely voluntarily, and the hypnotist plays a completely passive role


    33. Passive hypnosis is a gentle technique that works on everybody, and it’s quite the reverse of authoritative or command hypnosis that is used by stage hypnotists


    34. independently that they are working (passive


    35. This transforms our relationship with Karma from a passive feeling of fatality to a constructive and grateful attitude for every experience received, good or bad


    36. Marcus’s passive mask is gone, revealing the malicious face beneath it


    37. I don’t know that I succeeded in keeping that rule, but it was helpful for me when trying to create an active, rather than a passive or reactive, character


    38. On the TV, I was listening the speech of a young manager, and I almost started crying as a result of his passive and hopeless way of talking about his business


    39. This is a passive, secondary and often depressive approach to managing life and


    40. In situations similar to the above, these questions might help (they will change the focus, turn the energy from passive into creative and goal orientated):

    41. Moreover, others fall victim to an attitude of passive resignation, seeing their unhappiness and suffering only as an unavoidable process of paying off their debt of "bad karma"


    42. “Yes, but the point is: Did you notice how the grandmaster did nothing to stop the weapon fire, it just had no effect on him? That is what is known as a passive energy field


    43. away, an equally passive six legged Drog had witnessed his own


    44. ” And the kid on the ski lift is pretty much the sort of passive, limp, indulgent automaton his classroom teachers seek to produce as future citizens, using such material as cited above


    45. The majority that should govern in a democracy is to be rendered passive and submissive


    46. A rather depressed figure sat in the dock and showed no emotion as the statements were read out, Harry didn’t care anymore whether the Jurors were concerned by his passive stance as they stared intently upon him from time to time


    47. So, with a hint of passive aggression and very little forethought, I placed


    48. sing is full of power, there is nothing passive about it


    49. It strikes down the idea of passive observation, given by classical theory, and shows


    50. passive or the active way









































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    Synonyms for "passive"

    passive passive voice inactive peaceful resigned acquiescent receiving submissive suffering non-resistant motionless inert idle prone quiescent affected stirred influenced

    "passive" definitions

    the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb


    lacking in energy or will


    peacefully resistant in response to injustice


    expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb