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go past

VERB
  1. move past
    He passed his professor in the hall
    A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window
    One line of soldiers surpassed the other
  2. be superior or better than some standard
    She exceeded our expectations
    She topped her performance of last year

How To Use go past In A Sentence

  • Having to go past the perfume counter in the department store will also become more dangerous.
  • Nobody would want the seats on buses, instead we'd fight for the handholds and the over-head bars, and buses would go past with people swinging like carcasses on meat hooks.
  • We're trying to tell players that once you go past the point of [impasse], it's difficult to put the yolk back in the egg, '' said the Boston Red Sox's John Harrington, the owners 'point man. Baseball's Hardest Sell
  • A vestige of a long-ago past, the n-word—fully spelled out—still lingers in environmental conservation laws classifying bodies of water. Offensive Environment
  • The Dublin goalkeeper may wear rather large comical gloves to ensure that the ball does not go past him.
  • Had it possibly been sidetracked for some reason in order to allow the slower train to go past?
  • Take exit 29 in Corbin, go past the Wal-Mart Super Center, the Lowe’s, and the Taco Bell, turn right onto 25W; it’s less than a mile, it’s on your right, and you can’t miss it — there’s a huge KFC bucket atop a high pole proudly revolving overhead. World-Chicken in the First Frontier | PopPolitics.com
  • In a different dimension but not far removed, Obama's Chicago pastor, now eclipsed, Rev. Jeremiah Wright showed Obama a non-dogmatic Christianity: a transcendent God and a zeal for this-worldly activism, but not a direct answer to every political question. Christopher Lydon: Reading Obama's Mind: Pragmatism and Its Perils (AUDIO)
  • I could go on and on about the internal contradictions of this document (for example, how does Stan the Man plan to "decentralize" and "Improve Unity of Effort and Command?"), but the simple fact is that you don't have to go past pillars 1 and 2 to realize that this isn't a credible strategy. Derrick Crowe: Gen. McChrystal's Assessment Ignores COIN Doctrine, Reality
  • Don't go past the camera's optical zoom range, or you'll be sorry!
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