pass off

Example Sentences

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Just down the street from the shipyard, Groton resident Autumn Gardiner rents an apartment that she’d love to pass off to a new Electric Boat employee after she buys a home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Fraudsters could theoretically attempt to pass off a different insect species as one of those four.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Kelley Warburton scored on a 30-yard pass off a trick play early in the fourth quarter as the Huskies tried to fight back.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2024

In Monday’s interview, he tried to pass off this turnabout as obvious, as if he had believed it all along.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2024

It was repetitive work; the muscles in his arms and lower back twinged as he stooped over and over to pass off refilled buckets and pick up empty ones.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray