pass off

Example Sentences

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When they try to pass off the stupid thing they said as a “joke.”

From Salon • May 20, 2026

Lehkonen collected the loose puck and took it the length of the ice before deflecting a centering pass off Kempe’s skate and by Forsberg for a short-handed goal, his second score of the series.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

“We didn’t pass off the full tariff, and we mitigated wherever we could.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Dobie also had a hand in Rowe's second-half try before collecting Van der Merwe's pass off the floor to sprint in for a well-deserved hat-trick.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

In the process of trying to wash out Ammu’s forbidden kohl, they had smudged it all over their eyes, and on the whole looked like three raccoons trying to pass off as Hindu ladies.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy