How to Use pass off in a Sentence

pass off

verb
  • Lots of men would have passed off that rod because the fish fought so hard.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
  • During the sequence, Hinckle fed a pass off to his right.
    — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Wilted lettuce doused in watery dressing passed off as salads.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Wilted lettuce doused in watery dressing passed off as salads.
    — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Wilted lettuce doused in watery dressing passed off as salads.
    — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Stamkos notched his third goal in two games by redirecting Forsberg's pinpoint pass off the right post and in.
    — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Everybody got beat on a 48-yard pass off a third-and-17 (biggest play of the game).
    — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Ocean carriers are reacting in kind, passing off the war-risk premiums to their customers.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Winter can be hard, but the belief that everyone is sadder during the season may simply be folklore passed off as fact.
    — Rafaela Jinich, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The film claims to be a comedy but does not even attempt to rise above judgmental statements passed off as jokes and slapstick comedy.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Durocher tossed his lone touchdown pass off a play-action rollout for six yards to Max Cherry for the 6-0 lead.
    — Brian Fabry, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The tie ultimately passed off without much incident.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • But the overall reality is simple, lying in the hands of the head man still pulling the strings despite passing off the play-calling reins.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Eleanor ends up passing off the story of Bessie surviving a concentration camp in Poland as her own.
    — Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • If Clark does manage to get passes off, USC’s lockdown secondary has the chance to live up to the hype.
    — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
  • One tactic smugglers use is passing off African greys as species that can still be legally exported, such as green and red-fronted parrots.
    — Rene Ebersole, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Valakari added to that advantage eight minutes later, when David Vazquez dumped a pass off to the streaking midfielder.
    — Kyle Kensing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Adam Gordon, the book’s protagonist, is always passing off someone else’s language as his own.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Throughout the case, Carnival’ attorneys maintained the cruise line wasn’t at fault and passed off blame to Rondon.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha september 22, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Sure enough, a member of the security team snagged the jersey, and it was passed off to a man who admired the jersey sitting in the ride behind Leo.
    — CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • On the final chance in the first half, the Dolphins couldn’t even get the Hail Mary pass off, with Tagovailoa taking a sack.
    — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Fifty-two seconds later, Jill Saulnier placed a perfect shot pass off Philips’ pad to a driving Sophie Shirley.
    — Hailey Salvian, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • Lastly and most crucially, CliffsNotes don’t generate writing that students can pass off as their own.
    — Joelle Renstrom august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In an effort to memorialize Bessie, who was a Holocaust survivor, Eleanor begins to pass off some of her late friend's stories as her own.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Charlie McAvoy moved the puck up along the right boards to Tanner Jeannot, who gained the zone and dropped a bank pass off the boards for Kuraly.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • LeBron quickly tried to whip the ball to the corner with about four seconds left, and Blake Griffin picked the pass off to secure the win for the West.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The cast of Moonlight then took the stage where Horowitz passed off the award to director Barry Jenkins who proceeded to give a speech of his own.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
  • While mass luxury may pass off plastic handbags or interior car seats as leather, such compromises cheapen the value perception in the eyes of those who know better.
    — Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • And that’s not even mentioning the Broncos’ use of match coverages, where defenders pass off assignments mid-play based on offensive motion.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2026
  • After Simmons-Hancock was dead, Parker performed a crude C-section on her body to remove the unborn child to pass off as her own.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026

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