IN PASSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in passing mean? 

• IN PASSING (adverb)
  The adverb IN PASSING has 1 sense:

1. incidentally; in the course of doing something else

  Familiarity information: IN PASSING used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN PASSING (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incidentally; in the course of doing something else

Synonyms:

en passant; in passing

Context example:

he made this remark in passing

 Context examples 

He did not pause to worry the victim, but ripped in passing, with the next bound tearing wide the throat of a second man.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving home but after being fully dressed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A unit of energy defined as the kinetic energy acquired by an electron in passing through a potential difference of one volt in a vacuum.

(Electronvolt, NCI Thesaurus)

His teeth, in passing, burst the wall of the great vein of the throat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She had not known before what pleasures she had to lose in passing March and April in a town.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Frank Churchill's confession of having behaved shamefully was the first thing to call for more than a word in passing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We eyed one another narrowly in passing, and with no favour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now and then, in passing a casement, you glanced out at the thick-falling snow; you listened to the sobbing wind, and again you paced gently on and dreamed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

After attending Louisa through her business, and loitering about a little longer, they returned to the inn; and Anne, in passing afterwards quickly from her own chamber to their dining-room, had nearly run against the very same gentleman, as he came out of an adjoining apartment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

In that moment White Fang was in upon him and out, in passing ripping his trimmed remnant of an ear.

(White Fang, by Jack London)