PASSPORT in a Sentence

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For PASSPORT, below is one of 49 sentences:
A passport for embarkation must be obtained; and the party must be acquainted with English in order to ask the way to London.

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 Meanings and Examples of PASSPORT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
passport
 n.  legal document identifying the bearer as citizen of a country to travel abroad
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, which I had shown at the town-hall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
2  As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
3  Now there is the yellow passport.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
4  It will be perceived that it was not without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as a very dangerous man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
5  He very speedily perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is provided.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
6  It was necessary to show him the yellow passport.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
7  He drew from his secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the elections.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
8  Monsieur Thenardier, one does not require a passport to travel five leagues from Paris.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
9  This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
10  When the doctor has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a coffin.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
11  Dessessart ought to be his passport.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
12  Delighted with this assurance the governor countersigned the passport and delivered it to d'Artagnan.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
13  A passport for embarkation must be obtained; and the party must be acquainted with English in order to ask the way to London.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
14  In his right pocket he had his letter of credit, in the left, his passport, and in a small leathern purse some double louis d'or, carefully sewn up in the bosom of his waistcoat.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
15  Your father did not hesitate an instant, and the sum was sent to the frontier of Piedmont, with a passport signed for Italy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti.
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  She was born in New York and has an American passport.
2  Don't assume that winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
3  The possession of a passport is essential for foreign travel.
4  Officials type each passport number into a computer.
5  Quite a number of young people maintain that money is a passport to happiness.
6  To hire a car you must produce a passport and a current driving licence.
7  A passport that is out of date is invalid.
8  Inside the passport was a folded slip of paper.
9  In his hurry to leave, he forgot his passport.
10  He had a nasty moment when he thought he'd lost his passport.
11  The customs officer inspected my passport suspiciously.
12  I ,dare say you 'are British but you still need a passport to prove it.
13  Anyone travelling without a passport runs the risk of being arrested.
14  The average turnaround for a passport application is six working days.
15  Check the expiry date on your passport.