Sentence examples for attempt to pass off from inspiring English sources

Mr. Whitehouse thinks the inscription was an attempt to pass off the bowl as precious turquoise.

Mr. Cain's attempt to pass off incendiary comments as nothing but a joke may take more effort, however.

"It is shocking that social scientists would attempt to pass off such work as an objective evaluation".

The resolution seems thin, and the insouciance of tone, often appealing in Pearlman's work, feels here like an attempt to pass off the improbable as the inevitable.

Ming was removed by the police after he bit his owner, who failed in his attempt to pass off his injuries as the work of a pit bull.

The thieves also made off with a receipt book from the gallery, and he worried they would attempt to pass off sales of the stolen artwork as legitimate.

She had accused the fashion chain of passing off, or attempting to pass off, the garments as being approved by her.

Plagiarism is when an author attempts to pass off someone else's work as his or her own.

As for British media attempting to pass off its scraping fealty to the new aristocratic classes as an appreciation of something called "Style"?

Appropriating and remixing someone else's work while acknowledging sources is also very different from attempting to pass off that work as one's own.

The Sudanese government was attempting to pass off criminals arrested several years ago as janjaweed but hadn't informed the prisoners of the ploy.