repasses
- present tense form of repass (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The Comfort Zone provides discounts and contributes time and cooking skills to nonprofits, schools and homeless shelters, and is a frequent attendee at repasses, a post-funeral reception for friends and family of the recently deceased.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2023
The four parts of Joyce's novel reflect Italian Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vice's theory that history eternally passes and repasses through four phases: theocratic, aristocratic, democratic, chaotic.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wind sighs over it, bending the tall reeds with mournful rustle, and the wild bird passes and repasses with plaintive cry over the rushes which form his summer home.
From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by Butler, William Francis
That street is entirely out of Nadaud's way, and yet he passes and repasses there five or six times a day.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 by Chambers, William
Every evening, she passes and repasses over it, strengthening it with fresh threads.
From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
