"passive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She assigned a passive role to herself, with the public being the force which would act on her.
- The crowd, then, takes on a much more passive role.
- All night long he had been cast in the passive role of the one who listened.
- Richard seems to allow himself to be ordered into a passive role.
- In this cultural development, the local inhabitants had only a passive role.
- Here and elsewhere, however, architecture does not have to play a passive role.
- This time, the man will be taking the passive role.
- He had performed here many times in the past and the passive role was hard to take.
- She took on a more passive role in recent years as senior editor.
- Some older men may have at times preferred the passive role.
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