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Meanings of glide by in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pass"
Examples for "pass"
1
Higher energy prices increase transport costs which farmers pass on to consumers.
2
YOUR boarding pass contains far, far more information than you might think.
3
The pass rate on the course so far is 80 per cent.
4
UK police have said officers will pass the investigation to Spanish authorities.
5
These people must pass certain background checks for possible past criminal convictions.
1
The problem is when the memory lapse results in a serious outcome.
2
Lockup commitments, typically of three years, begin to lapse later this year.
3
However, if your relationship ends, your South African Spousal Permit will lapse.
4
Domestic violence is not about anger or a temporary lapse of control.
5
Why didn't things simply lapse back to the way they'd always been?
1
Two days must elapse before the steamer arrived; ample time for composition.
2
After the elapse of nearly 14 years, could this be a record?
3
In winter, months elapse without their seeing anybody from the outside world.
4
Two years, as they say in the playbills, is supposed to elapse.
5
An hour or two still had to elapse before the last scene.
1
The Houston story is too good to let it slip by undocumented.
2
They cross the Channel in their fishing-boats and slip by the warships.
3
I saw one slip by in the field, close to the road.
4
West Point would frown on him for letting that one slip by.
5
We watch the shoreline slip by as we near the harbor entrance.
1
A year ago, however, that name started to slip away from her.
2
Gregor watched us to make sure we didn't try to slip away.
3
At some point she felt Truitt slip away from her, lose consciousness.
4
Funny, people were always warning Taylor not to let Baldwin slip away.
5
She would not give up; would not let his life slip away.
1
Good Heaven; I thought you had been let go by the surgeons.
2
If new research is anything to go by then not so good.
3
At present 80 per cent of Dubliners don't go by public transport.
4
If the last year is anything to go by, neither much listened.
5
You can travel north beyond the ice, if you go by water.
1
So the years slide by into decades and still Galway wait on.
2
Analysts expect prices to slide by another 10 percent by early next year.
3
I let the obligatory 10 working days slide by and then emailed Comreg.
4
It was never his nature to let an opportunity slide by.
5
China saw investment banking fees slide by a quarter in 2011.
1
Eisenhower at the summit: 'What U-Twos?' We'll go along; no preliminary summation.
2
There are details we'll need to work out as we go along.
3
Caveolinopathies often go along with increased CK levels indicative of sarcolemmal damage.
4
Anybody interested in going to the tournament should go along, he said.
5
It's a valid point and my thoughts go along the same lines.
Usage of glide by in English
1
When he looked up again he saw Vaughan's cruiser glide by outside.
2
Swans glide by with their signets, and we spot two flitting kingfishers.
3
How fast the years glide by, beginning in hope and ending in disappointment!
4
He whom your breath touches does not glide by the shelter of the bank.
5
We sit and watch this shore as we glide by with a placid delight.
6
The hints in the screenplay glide by all too swiftly.
7
She decided to try and glide by that detail.
8
The hours glide by; the silver moon is gone.
9
As we watched the cruise ship glide by, a feeling of peace settled over me.
10
His days glide by with no twinges of conscience.
11
Running slower and slower, I watched Venus glide by.
12
As days glide by, the priest and his youthful charge grow into each other's hearts.
13
I watched nurses glide by on rubber clogs, their hair scraped back from tired faces.
14
Other canoes, which are also crossing, glide by the side of mine on the tranquil water.
15
It is hard to keep up, even though they glide by at a walking pace, silently.
16
Sitting upon the earth, do we not glide by all the constellations, all the awful stars?
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Glide by through the time
Glide by across language varieties
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