Sentence examples for pass on from high-quality English sources.

• This is essential so they can pass on their genes to their offspring.

• Other service providers can pass on economies of scale once available only to consumer-goods giants.

• Infected people may be able to pass on the new coronavirus even if they have few obvious symptoms, a study in Germany has found.

• I'd invite you to reflect on this in your own lineage and take action to decide exactly what you want to pass on to the new generation.

• This is essential so they can pass on their genes to their offspring.

• In a highly unusual departure from normal practice, Grisewood declined to pass on the content of these threats to Cadogan.

• Under their contracts with the regulator, the electricity firms are meant to be able to pass on to customers any rise in the cost of gas.

• Natural selection describes how organisms that are better adapted to an environment are more likely to survive long enough to reproduce and pass on their genes.

Use pass on in a sentence.

• Even when proper precautions are taken, polling places — through which hundreds or thousands of people pass on a single day — could become concentrated sites of infection.

• Memoirs of the Trump era are replete with anecdotes about senior staff removing documents from the president’s desk or accidentally-on-purpose forgetting to pass on his orders.

• "Even if vaccinated, you may still be able to pass on the virus to vulnerable people," Fauci, the infectious-disease expert who is President Joe Biden's chief medical advisor, said in a tweet.

• Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the lead House impeachment manager for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, defended the decision to pass on calling witnesses despite a Senate vote on Saturday that would have permitted the action.

• The very early data from countries which have opened schools to a degree indicate that they have not become infection hotspots - but it's early days and the data is currently too scant to give definitive reassurances that children do not pass on the virus.

• Over a thousand adults were questioned for the poll and when asked the reason why they chose any particular book the most common explanation was because it ‘expands imagination’ (57%), followed by the desire to pass on the pleasure they got from reading it.

• However, Ms Dickinson warned: "Without a deal, the British public will face over £3bn in food tariffs and retailers would have no choice but to pass on some of these additional costs to their customers who would see higher prices filter though during 2021."

• Already, soaring wood prices have hurt businesses that cannot pass on the higher costs to the end consumers, and this dynamic of supply-chain shortage is taking place in everything from semiconductors to commodities, including lumber, steel, copper, and cotton.

pass on sentence examples

• Talking about whether the spike in orange juice futures prices will mean higher prices for orange juice in stores, Mr Innes added: "The pass-on effect will be quick as orange juice producers pass the price rises onto to supermarkets and other buyers".

• Counsel assisting argued that executives failed to heed warning signs from Chinese authorities of a crackdown, and failed to pass on information about specific incidents in China, including two staff being questioned and subsequently arrested by the State Security Bureau.

• Senior executives at Silverstein Properties, a major Manhattan landlord that owns a multi-million-square-foot portfolio of commercial space, including three office towers at the World Trade Center, said it would likely pass on temperature-taking altogether within its portfolio.

• Government sources said in 2013 police had failed to pass on Mr Backwell's contact details to the National Probation Service (NPS), which is responsible for keeping victims updated, and although efforts were made to trace him before the parole hearing they were "not successful".