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pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
The children perished in the fire
She died from cancer
The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
The patient went peacefully -
go out of existence
She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away
How To Use pass away In A Sentence
- Old and new lie next to one another, mixed and intermingled; the ancient is about to pass away, while the modern is geared for eternity, or at least for a kalpa which seems to us eternal.
- A possible future is that regions will pass away and districts amalgamate to make contracts for more specialist services - tertiary care.
- For our possessions are in heaven; therefore, sons of men, purchase unto yourselves by these transitory things which are not yours, _what is yours_, and shall not pass away. Cosmic Consciousness
- The merchant maintains that the day for obeying the New Testament rule, "Let the wife fear her husband," will never pass away; that although unfaithfulness, which is assumed to be impossible on the part of the wife, may happen in other classes, in the merchant class it does not happen, and that the carouses of married men at the fair, which the narrator has heard him relating, and of which he reminds him, form a special topic which must be excluded from the discussion. Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata"
- Three things soon pass away; the echo of the woods, the rainbow, and woman's beauty.
- Not one iota, not one dot of the law will pass away until all is fulfilled. Christianity Today
- Another said, "Be comforted, Yussuf, three days will soon pass away, and then you will relish your kabobs and your rakee, your sweetmeats and your wine, with greater pleasure, having been so long deprived of them. The Pacha of Many Tales
- I'm thinking of making a bellyboard just as a novelty and to pass away a few hours (not neglecting my standup).
- If you then could have inquired asking the Saviour how comprehensive is this inspiration, He would answer you that, ‘not a jot or a tittle of the law shall pass away until all be fulfilled.’
- And as people pass away, or in the case of Mark Felt, unmask themselves, we will send the notes down there, so people literally can see exactly what we did step by step.