passenger

Example Sentences

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The collapse comes after years of financial instability, including multiple bankruptcy filings in 2024 and 2025, and a business model that relied heavily on ultra-low fares and high passenger volume.

From Salon • May 2, 2026

There is now a statue of Ruswarp the border collie, who signed the petition with his paw, and was classed as a paying passenger.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Vultures have suffered “the fastest collapse of any group of birds on earth,” Mr. Weidensaul writes, “second only to the extinction of the passenger pigeon in terms of the sheer numbers of individuals lost.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

But as Celine fulsomely explains in her charmingly thick Québécois accent, she was actually a passenger on the Titanic.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Instead, I’m sitting in the passenger seat of my sister Celia’s car, waiting for our cousin Avery to come outside.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison