passenger

Example Sentences

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This makes it a welcome passenger on lazy day trips or late-night drives, and a generally acceptable ambient addition to crowded good times.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

Leaning across the center console, he flung open the passenger door.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The earliest passenger elevators were powered by steam engines and used hemp ropes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Meanwhile in August 2025, an Apollo Go robotaxi carrying a passenger in Chongqing fell into a construction pit.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

I got into the passenger seat, in her place, running my hand across the leather before I sat, as if I were brushing away her ghost.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller