Below you will find example sentences with "walks past". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Walks Past in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: walks
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 16
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.7 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "walks past" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 25.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a boy walks past posters bearing, a man walks past a damaged, man, friday and new stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with past decade, past year, past few, two walks, walks off and person walks, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with walks past
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
A man walks past damaged buildings in Mariupol. (8 words)
A person walks past the historic town’s beloved 150-year-old Banyan tree. (14 words)
The video’s protagonist, a young boy, walks past them and acknowledges their charming set-up. (16 words)
A man wearing a face mask walks past an electronic foreign currency exchange rates in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 22. Asian shares advanced Wednesday after a Wall Street rally led by the banks most beaten down by the industry’s crisis. (43 words)
A police personnel walks past voters standing in queues to cast their votes at a polling station on the outskirts of Amritsar on June 1, 2024, during the seventh and final phase of voting in India’s general election. (39 words)
Sam Cane of New Zealand walks past the The Webb Ellis Cup following the Rugby World Cup Final match between New Zealand and South Africa at Stade de France on October 28, 2023 in Paris, France. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
A woman walks past past Greenpeace activists standing inside a store window display during a Black Friday sale in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019.
Alex Thuo, an employee of Ecobodaa Mobility, walks past electric motorcycles to be assembled at its warehouse in Nairobi, Kenya, Jan.
A man in a business suit walks past activists during Climate Week in the Financial District of New York on Monday.
A man walks past a damaged wall of the historic Medina of Marrakech, after after an earthquake in Morocco on Saturday.
A man walks past damaged buildings in Mariupol.
A man wearing a face mask walks past an electronic foreign currency exchange rates in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 22. Asian shares advanced Wednesday after a Wall Street rally led by the banks most beaten down by the industry’s crisis.
A pedestrian walks past a clean-up operation in a mud-covered street, following torrential rains that brought widespread floods to the city of Hong Kong.
A person walks past the historic town’s beloved 150-year-old Banyan tree.
A student walks past a checkpoint outside the Almoloya prison where Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is being held in Villa de Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, Friday, Jan.
A surfer walks past the entrance to Young’s Beach Shack, a new beachfront eatery, which opened at Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, after nearly a year of construction.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang, a middle-aged man wearing glasses and a dark suit, walks past a display of flags hanging in front of a lush green wall of plants.
He walks past the motionless Wights and comes across the Night King and the White Walkers sitting astride their dead horses.
Penguins defenseman Kris Letang walks past fans on the red carpet at Consol Energy Center on Oct. 13, 2015.
Sam Cane of New Zealand walks past the The Webb Ellis Cup following the Rugby World Cup Final match between New Zealand and South Africa at Stade de France on October 28, 2023 in Paris, France.
The Bulls' DeMar DeRozan walks past the Raptors bench after being ejected Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, in Toronto.
The video’s protagonist, a young boy, walks past them and acknowledges their charming set-up.
A boy walks past posters bearing the images of Indonesia's presidential candidates Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo at a residential area in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday.
A police personnel walks past voters standing in queues to cast their votes at a polling station on the outskirts of Amritsar on June 1, 2024, during the seventh and final phase of voting in India’s general election.
In this file photo taken in Seoul on August 16, 2023, a man walks past a television showing a news broadcast featuring a photo of US soldier Travis King.
People walks past a Christmas tree after attending a Christmas mass at the church of St. George, in Maaloula, some 60 km northern Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024.