Example Sentences

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Justin set up shop on the east side of Clay Street in Nocona when he moved in 1889 to take advantage of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad that was bypassing Spanish Fort.

From Washington Times • Jan. 8, 2017

Karel De Gucht, the European Union’s trade commissioner, issued an unusually blunt complaint late Monday that China was bypassing the European Union’s leaders by going to member governments.

From New York Times • May 28, 2013

The proposal was withdrawn in 2009 because some China scholars were upset that Hanban was bypassing them, said Frank Chance, associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 2, 2011

She said the railroad was bypassing Jamaica on Monday night but trains were leaving Brooklyn and Penn Station.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2010

She wasn’t using a word-processing program of any kind—in fact, she was bypassing much of the operating system—and whatever formatting was imposing itself on the words, it wasn’t hers.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman