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glide by

v. pass by; "three years elapsed" [syn: elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along]

Usage examples of "glide by".

With a heavy sigh, Kiel rolled a few feet away, leaving Maia to watch the world-ocean glide by in peace.

Sometimes a great serpent will glide by beneath us, its spots all in a line as regular as the windows of a passing train.

Sometimes they talked and sometimes they said nothing at all but watched the cars glide by like black panthers on the hot asphalt or saw trolleys loom up like thunderstorms, scatter lightning, and rumble away into silence.

THE DAYs on the Titanic seemed to glide by with ease and pleasure.