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

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

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

It starts quietly enough, a whisper I can pass off as the wind, a scrape that sounds like the echo of my footsteps on the cracked ground.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir