How to Use pass as in a Sentence

pass as

phrasal verb
Definition of pass asnext
  • If this was passed as well, the sales tax in the city would go up to 7.9% in the city and 5.9% in the rest of the county.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
  • Goff hit him in the hands with a pass as the receiver leaned to the grass, and the ball clanked away.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Parker stayed long enough for what would pass as a short drive.
    — Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Jay Ratliff came to Auburn as a tight end and caught two passes as a freshman.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Here is a record of passing as nettles vibrate and pinecones drop.
    — John Kinsella, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Those laws aren’t old: Some were passed as recently as 2019.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 6 June 2024
  • The younger actors are very good, if perhaps a bit mature-looking to pass as teens.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
  • But Herbert also was picked off twice in that game and failed to throw a touchdown pass as the Chargers won late 17-14.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The 2024 season is going to be a huge one for Mingo, who failed to haul in a touchdown pass as a rookie.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Can a Jewish man write fiction about a black man passing as a Jewish man in academia?
    — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • None of the flashes in the pan here like Avon Products or Xerox that passed as buy-and-hold-forever stocks 20 years back.
    — Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Days, sometimes weeks, pass as your crates sit in the blazing sun, their contents wasting away.
    — Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • The flowy skater silhouette allows this pick to pass as a regular skirt, too, so don’t be afraid to pair it with a dressier top and shoes.
    — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2024
  • On this evening, some of the lightbulbs are broken, and a folding table covered with a white sheet passes as a dais.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
  • Jeffery Wright, who also starred in the 2000 Shaft film with Roundtree and Jackson, responded to the news of the actor’s passing as well.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But in the the end, the $3.8 billion buyout of Spirit never came to pass as a Boston federal judge blocked the takeover on antitrust grounds.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2024
  • The quick pace means new legislation that could restore those IVF treatments could pass as soon as next week.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • And while this moment didn’t come to pass as guessed, actor Jared Leto ensured the Birman cat was not erased from the evening altogether.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2 May 2023
  • And yet another weak low may pass as a frontal boundary sinks southward Friday.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Madewell's Easy Shirt-Jacket works as outerwear while still passing as a button-down shirt.
    — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2023
  • As the city has struggled to contain the explosion of unlicensed weed stores, a new law passed as part of the state budget this Spring giving the city broader powers.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 6 July 2024
  • The second law, passed as Senate Bill 233, comparatively dwarfs the first.
    — Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 15 May 2024
  • What struck me post-graduation is how quickly time passes as the sheer quantity of tasks to complete grows.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
  • The law was originally passed as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a measure meant to curb corporate malfeasance.
    — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • But on the small screen, the show somehow passed as Revolutionary Popular Art.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2024
  • Texans running back Devin Singletary had a touchdown pass as well.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • But humans have a dread fear of nonhumans passing as the real thing—replicants, lizard people, robots with skin.
    — WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The entire ensemble could easily pass as an attire fit for a tunnel walk.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Both laws were passed as an attempt to offer more affordable housing options.
    — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Before Kris’ arrival, sitting alone in the kitchen eating pasta and playing on her phone passed as an evening’s entertainment.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024

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