diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 2d3c27935ad..a922a80b0f8 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ Bug fixes
 
 Other
 
+* LUCENE-9631: Properly override slice() on subclasses of OffsetRange. (Dawid Weiss)
+
 * LUCENE-9312: Allow gradle builds against arbitrary JVMs. (Tomoko Uchida, Dawid Weiss)
 
 * LUCENE-9391: Upgrade HPPC to 0.8.2. (Haoyu Zhai)
diff --git a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/matchhighlight/MatchHighlighter.java b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/matchhighlight/MatchHighlighter.java
index d59af2aff61..277a3243e92 100644
--- a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/matchhighlight/MatchHighlighter.java
+++ b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/matchhighlight/MatchHighlighter.java
@@ -163,6 +163,11 @@ public class MatchHighlighter {
       super(from, to);
       this.query = query;
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public QueryOffsetRange slice(int from, int to) {
+      return new QueryOffsetRange(query, from, to);
+    }
   }
 
   private static class DocHit {
diff --git a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/matchhighlight/Passage.java b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/matchhighlight/Passage.java
index 9a4dc4b0a40..7fafeddfb16 100644
--- a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/matchhighlight/Passage.java
+++ b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/matchhighlight/Passage.java
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ public class Passage extends OffsetRange {
     this.markers = markers;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Passages can't be sliced as it could split previously determined
+   * highlight markers.
+   */
+  @Override
+  public OffsetRange slice(int from, int to) {
+    throw new RuntimeException("Passages.slice() does not make sense?");
+  }
+
   @Override
   public String toString() {
     return "[" + super.toString() + ", markers=" + markers + "]";