Sentence examples for passing myself from inspiring English sources

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I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv.

Such havens in the wilderness of my disaffection became increasingly rare, as I veered between an escalating strategy of religious defiance and passing myself off as an uncorrupted product of an Orthodox upbringing.

While she used to feel she was "passing" for white ("I heard a racist conversation at a dinner party; it made me feel like a spy"), she met resentment in the Caribbean during 1970s black power from those "more worried at my passing myself off as black".

A lukewarm dilettante passing myself off as a fan.

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Can I pass myself off as an author?

I never pass myself in a corridor and say, I am a black girl.

There's no way I'd ever to try to pass myself off as a countryman.

'I used to pass myself for a socialist, but I stopped using this word 15 years ago,' Mr Havel countered.

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