Example Sentences

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Bypassed by interstate highways and railroads, Hartville doesn’t have a big tax base or large industry.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022

Bypassed college to play professionally last season in New Zealand — the homeland of Nets GM Sean Marks — and worked out for Brooklyn ahead of the draft.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2020

Bypassed in the amateur draft, he went to Texas A&M; and was invited to fall ball as a preferred walk-on.

From Washington Times • May 27, 2020

Bypassed by most, its foreground of old trees frames arguably the most romantic view of the Roman Forum and certainly the coolest, temperaturewise.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2019

Bypassed by the Green Revolution of the 1970s, it never got used to the inflated yields that industrial agriculture made possib-le.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2012