PASSION in a Sentence

Learn PASSION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
244 example sentences for PASSION, such as:
1. He could not control his passion.
2. His passion is making model aircraft.
3. Take your passion and make it come true.
4. Where passion is high there reason is low.
5. With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PASSION
passion
 n.  the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion
 n.  the trait of being intensely emotional
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The love which had sprung up in his heart was not the sudden, changeable fancy of a boy, but rather the wild, fierce passion of a man of strong will and imperious temper.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  But in his ravaged face she always felt mystery; and in his silence, passion.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
3  Guest's eyes brightened, and he sat down at once and studied it with passion.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
4  He was not so honest, he was not so manly, he was not so good-humoured; he substituted cunning for their simplicity, and passion for their safe solid sense.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
5  All her wildness and passion had subsided; but, though softened, she was not in tears.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
6  She broke into a passion of tears and lamentations: Stephen Blackpool was written in his own hand on the inside.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
7  Another suitor might feel jealousy while he touched this string; but my firm purpose cannot be changed by a passion so childish and so hopeless.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  "God's will be done," said Cedric, in a voice tremulous with passion, which Front-de-Boeuf imputed to fear.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Shouldst thou adhere perversely to thy passion for this Rebecca, thou wilt give Beaumanoir the power of expelling thee, and he will not neglect it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  "I weigh not these evils," said Rebecca, afraid to provoke the wild knight, yet equally determined neither to endure his passion, nor even feign to endure it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  His face, though partly hidden by a long plume which floated down from his barrel-cap, bore a strong and mingled expression of passion, in which pride seemed to contend with irresolution.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  They loved their respective young men, and their respective young men loved them with all the passion of mental attraction.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  It was the last bit of passion left in these men: the passion for making a display.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  The upper classes fascinated her, appealing to her peculiar English passion for superiority.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Not hate: there was no passion in it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
2  Football arouses a good deal of passion among its supporters.
3  Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
4  Take your passion and make it come true.
5  Where passion is high there reason is low.
6  Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
7  The phrase "yeah yeah yeah" can rarely have been delivered with so much unhinged passion.
8  She argued her case with considerable passion.
9  He could not control his passion.
10  The film follows the relationship between sexy femme fatale Suzy and young lawyer Jim, which eventually leads to a murderous crime of passion.
11  There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
12  His passion is making model aircraft.
13  The scientist is motivated by a passion for what is true and a sense of responsibility towards what is true.
14  Even though he was not conservatory trained, his passion for music took him to the point where eventually he was considered one of the best guitar accompanist in Cuba.
15  In a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' about once in a minute.