How To Use Pass off In A Sentence
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Will people want to honour her, as they did then, or will the extended bank holiday designated for this purpose simply pass off as a pleasant break?
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The people in the mosk recited the afternoon prayer without my knowing it, and now I have a mind to get an hour's sleep, probably I shall find repose for the body, and what I suffer will pass off.
Arabian nights. English
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And worse still, what Starbucks tries to pass off as chai is nothing like the chai that any Indian knows and loves.
Boing Boing: July 10, 2005 - July 16, 2005 Archives
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The dealer was trying to pass off fakes as valuable antiques.
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The storm should pass off before dark.
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The storm should pass off before dark.
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I often get headaches, but they seem to pass off in a little while.
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Four others were nabbed two months ago when they were trying to pass off fake money to a disguised police officer.
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At times like these I wish for the old pot belly stove by Margaret Bassett on Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008 at 7: 33: 32 PM donny and brian pass off the crap by io on Saturday, Dec 27, 2008 at 2: 40: 36 AM
A word about Easter Island and other calamitous feedback loops
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I just took an undyed ball and hoped it would pass off for ‘taupe’.
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There was one explanation as to why he was able to pass off mountebankery as art for so long; the myth of impressionism.
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I'll be serving up strange concoctions such as unbaked notions, parenthetical ideas (three kinds of brackets are hardly enough for me), and idées fixes that I am quite prepared to pass off as distillations of wisdom because I've been around for a very long time.
Archive 2005-08-01
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The problem with this situation is exactly what I just so cleverly alluded to - people who really don't have much to offer as far as opinions go attempt to pass off their ill-informed extended blurbs as gospel truth.
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The dealer was trying to pass off fakes as valuable antiques.
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I often get headaches, but they seem to pass off in a little while.
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The polls were pushed back from October 11 after an abortive coup but are expected to pass off peacefully.
Times, Sunday Times
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Had I not contrived to pass off a poggado bav engro — a broken-winded horse — at a fair, I at this moment should be without a tringoruschee piece in my pocket.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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Mescaline is completely innocuous, and its effects will pass off after eight or ten hours.
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But unlike used mitts and bats, you can't exactly pass off a broken board or pair of tattered, hole-ridden shoes as a hand-me-down; even the Goodwill and Play It Again Sports have standards.
Kevin Duffel: Skateboarders Going Green
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The common law provides a general remedy against companies seeking to pass off counterfeit products as though they were the real thing.
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Ner 'tain't quite hendy to pass off one o' your six-foot Guineas
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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Ensuring proper pass off to other leaders using logbook.
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However, it was enough for the horrid, frostbound sensation which had gripped me about the chest to pass off.
The Secret Sharer
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They cobble together any old rubbish to pass off as art such as baths full of baked beans or piles of old house bricks.
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To test its escape in the urine, pass off your water in a clear glass pint bottle and let it stand twenty-four hours in a warm place; then hold up the bottle between yourself and the light, and if you discover a sediment of a +white, fleecy+ nature, resembling cotton, in the bottom, you are suffering from +hidden spermatorrhoea+, from which all your present ailments come.
Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc.
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I've tried to pass off my accent as a convent school accent.
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At a time when the political pressures on black playwrights writing about black characters were to produce very narrow art that, at best, is only accessible to a certain type of person at a certain period of time, or, at worst, uses blackness as a gimmick to pass off inferior works -- at that time, Wilson produced some work that was remarkable in both its particularness and its transcendance.
August Wilson, RIP
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For anyone who teaches at a university contracting with Safe Assignment's plagiarism-detection service, please note that those of us at USF have had several serious problems with the service in the past week, from the failures to pass off cookies smoot...
Plagiary
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He tried to pass off the comment by posting a snap of his car's mileometer.
The Sun
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But newspapers have NO right to lie to their readers and pass off advertising as editorial news or comment.
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He used their writings to forge autographs and whole letters, as well as trying to pass off others' work as his own.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This subsense, 2, does not acknowledge an attempt to pass off same-sex couples as like a marriage.
Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
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I often get headaches, but they seem to pass off in a little while.
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He used their writings to forge autographs and whole letters, as well as trying to pass off others' work as his own.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I'm afraid that those who might be snowed by the report's valiant attempt to pass off hope for potential are few.
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It is, however, one of the most blatant examples of companies trying to pass off an advertisement as reality.
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What were much more common, as various hacks and police forces found to their cost, were chancers trying either to pass off innocuous material as weapons-grade when they had a customer, or to secure rewards from the authorities.
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He tried to pass off a false Dagas on the auctioneer.
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Ner 't ain't quite hendy to pass off one o 'your six-foot Guineas
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
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The dealer was trying to pass off fakes as valuable antiques.
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The storm should pass off before dark.
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He used their writings to forge autographs and whole letters, as well as trying to pass off others' work as his own.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The Eagles pass defense outgained the Dallas pass offense.
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The festival does not always pass off as the parents and adults expect, with some babies refusing to cry on the open-air stage at the Asakusa temple.
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I've tried to pass off my accent as a convent school accent.
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In an effort to pass off Matthew as a commoner, he was arrayed in some outgrown clothes of Krist's: a long-sleeved beige shirt, very baggy indigo jeans, and red and white sneakers.
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A couple of schoolboys pass off a forged 500-franc note at a photography shop.
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This subsense, 2, does not acknowledge an attempt to pass off yada, yada, yada.
Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
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A character named Simeon Dubious attempts to pass off uncurrent bills by purchasing some "cottons" for $500 and then selling them at auction with the hopes of getting paid an equal amount or more in specie.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
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If iPod became a generally used term (such as hoover, mentioned above), then in future it could be impossible for Apple to enforce the trademark if someone were to use it in a malicious way, say to try and pass off cheap rubbish mp3 players as iPods.
Scripting News for 9/23/2006 « Scripting News Annex
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Anyone who publishes a report trying to pass off damage in a report as ‘damage’ deserves a kicking.
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A character named Simeon Dubious attempts to pass off uncurrent bills by purchasing some "cottons" for $500 and then selling them at auction with the hopes of getting paid an equal amount or more in specie.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
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They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
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Who can respect a simpering ninny, grinning in a Roman dress and a full-bottomed wig, who is made to pass off for a hero? or a fat woman in a hoop, and of a most doubtful virtue, who leers at you as
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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A new Weekend Promming Pass offers prommers around the country the chance to beat the queues and save money.
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Small enough to pass off as a lipstick (or a chapstick for you guys), the device is discreet enough for you to quickly hop into a quiet corner, check for directions and make your way forth.
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