How to Use pass it on in a Sentence

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• Those of us touched by the gift of his life owe it to him to pass it on.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 26 Dec. 2021
• Most coaches, dressed in suit and tie, hold the Cup briefly, then pass it on.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2022
• This is a small way to pay tribute to my amazing friend and to pass it on.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2022
• Once one player used up their life, they were meant to pass it on.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
• One of those to pass it on, via retweet, was the then-President of the United States.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
• Their music has the power to inspire those their age to learn it, to pass it on.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• That left the party without enough support to pass it on their own.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2024
• That means both parents need to carry the abnormal gene, and both need to pass it on to their child.
  — Hallie Levine, Health.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• The importer may absorb the higher cost or pass it on to consumers through higher prices.
  — Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Nov. 2024
• Wealthy people have long used trusts to stash their money and pass it on to the next generation.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
• During the first stage, neurons in the input layer encode features of the image and pass it on.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2021
• The companies can either pay the cost themselves or pass it on to applicants.
  — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 June 2021
• The state Assembly is scheduled to pass it on Wednesday, which would then send it to the Senate for final approval.
  — Scott Bauer, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• The first is Memories — the nostalgia, for people who lived it, then pass it on to their children and grandchildren.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 July 2021
• Politely nudge extended family members who are hogging the good stuff to pass it on along à la the James Brown band.
  — Seventeen, 8 Aug. 2022
• Males also inherit the maternal mtDNA but do not pass it on to their offspring.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
• The agent would accept money coming from the accounts handled by the men from West Champaran and pass it on to traders depending on their export orders.
  — Parth M.n., Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Some children may still become sick with rotavirus and pass it on to parents, siblings, peers, and other relatives.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health, 23 Oct. 2024
• The more interactions there are, the greater the chance that an animal will transmit a particular disease to a human, and the greater the risk that person will get sick and pass it on to their neighbors.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
• The more interactions there are, the greater the chance that an animal will transmit a particular disease to a human, and the greater the risk that person will get sick and pass it on to their neighbors.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
• Code Can Bridge will try to attract special education teachers who are interested in code and want to pass it on to their students.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• As costs significantly increase, businesses need to pass it on to the customer.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• Congress should pass it on the basis of self-preservation alone; the justices lately have seemed all too happy to take over increasing shares of the other branches’ powers.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
• Each new interaction is a chance for an animal to get sick in an entirely new way—and to pass it on to other species, including humans.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2022
• Instead, keep that positivity and pass it on through your social media so others can perceive it too.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2022
• Instructors can remove an organ from a body and pass it on to students, who can look inside the organ to explore better, all virtually.
  — Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Detroit Lions fullback Jason Cabinda understands the value of a good education and wants to pass it on.
  — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
• Covid-19 patients infect about 1 in 5 household members, study finds People infected with coronavirus pass it on to about one in five of their household contacts, a new global study finds.
  — Meg Wagner, CNN, 27 Aug. 2021
• Even in the 20th century, silver still dazzled on the tables of those who could afford it, and a woman might inherit her mother or grandmother’s service and then pass it on to her own daughter in due time.
  — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2024
• Vaccinated children would be less likely to catch the coronavirus and pass it on; parents, siblings, and grandparents, in turn, would be less likely to be pulled out of work and risk losing income.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022

Last Updated: 27 Feb 2025