“Half an hour later the laundry was passably clean and Anna had ended up even more scungy than before.”

“A wide range of grape varieties is grown at least passably well, which has distracted from the question of what the district does best.”

“Standing there was a young man a few years older than me, passably good-looking but with a slightly weedy air about him.”

“I find it passing strange that convicts understand honest folk, but honest folk don't understand convicts.”

“You argue against yourself, brother, and I find it to be more than passingly foolhardy.”

“They would sort of passingly mention that I did a very nice job, but then just go to talk about the play.”

“Actually, I'm passingly familiar with some descendants of East India merchants, and such a description wouldn't be too far off the mark.”