"passive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After this battle, the Persians took an essentially passive role in the conflict, anxious not to risk battle if possible.
- This plot has problems: its leading characters are essentially passive.
- The student in this situation is essentially passive, not in control of his or her own education.
- These essentially passive movements occurs during defecation and labour.
- But we must assign them special categories as essentially passive combatants.
- Popular culture instead reproduced essentially passive individuals as labour power for monopoly capitalism.
- The latter are essentially passive and do not suffer before they are consumed.
- But the essentially passive nature of watching television is turned topsy-turvy on the Internet.
- The focuser is almost always the one at greatest risk in such a situation because his role is essentially passive.
- The people are essentially passive, reliant on Oa, the principle of fecundity.
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