How to Use passing note in a Sentence

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• Some of her clients are afraid to talk to her in the jail and pass notes instead.
  — Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
• News spread fast, through the usual backstage channels, in whispers and passed notes.
  — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
• Instead, black girls with straight hair and thick lip gloss whispered and passed notes about my natural twists during class.
  — Elaine Musiwa, Allure, 25 July 2018
• Its misfortune is that it was brought screaming into the world for the sole purpose of creating a passing note of pathos in a song lyric.
  — Nitsuh Abebe, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
• The video surveillance from the April 29 incident captured Wright and the woman passing notes to each other.
  — Glenn E. Rice, kansascity, 12 May 2018
• Two weeks later, the teacher thought the boys were talking in class or possibly passing notes, approached them and confiscated a piece of paper — the page with the drawing.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2020
• While Choate worked with one student, others performed the online equivalent of passing notes in class, or firing spitballs.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• Sarah: Oh man great premise, and one near and dear to the hearts of teachers everywhere who are constantly trying to split up friends gossiping and passing notes and generally distracting the rest of the class.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 19 Sep. 2019
• Taking the opportunity to be playful and sneaky, the girls excitedly tried to pass notes to each other without being spotted.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe and Aj Willingham, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019
• With Trump's team finished with its opening statements, which wrapped up Tuesday, senators will actually be encouraged to pass notes, but not to each other.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020
• After a heavy focus on immigration in prior debates, the subject was barely mentioned tonight save for one passing note from Julian Castro.
  — WSJ, 16 Oct. 2019
• On Thursday, the Boca Raton resident had sat quietly throughout the hearing, at one point passing notes to an attorney in federal court in Miami.
  — Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Indeed, local investigators have documented delays in the hourly rounds and raised concerns about the ability to pass notes and contraband between cells.
  — Jason Pohl, ProPublica, 20 July 2019

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