Hence cars were passing one another in a puzzling and unorthodox fashion, at least from the stranger's viewpoint.

Days passed in such a fashion.

He passed his hand in a dazed fashion over his forehead.

The day passed in an agonizing fashion.

Time is often depicted as passing in a non-linear fashion, and action may switch between two or more timeframes from moment to moment.

"The torch was not passed in a civic-minded fashion," he said.

The next few hours passed in an excruciating fashion.

Suffice to say the day and night passed in a deeply unpleasant fashion and the following morning brought no respite.

The most significant arms control agreement in nearly two decades was passed in a bipartisan fashion.

There was a vague sense that it symbolized the cycle of life, but time passed in a sluggish fashion.