Sentence example with the word 'truancy'

truancy

abscondence, absenteeism, day off, dodging, fleeing, hooky, malingering, sabbatical leave, slacking, truantism

Definition n. failure to attend

Last update: October 13, 2015


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Truancy has increased in schools these days.   [Please select]

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A truancy act (1908) provides that every child between the ages of 7 and 14 years living in a city of the first, second, third or fourth class must attend school regularly for the full term of said school.   [Please select]

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With the help of the principal of the school make a study of some specific cases of truancy.   [Please select]

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And the day was the accomplice of her mood: it was a day for impulse and truancy.   [Please select]

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With even, passionless voice, with almost no sign of penitence, he told her the story of the day's truancy.   [Please select]

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” The thought of my truancy was no balm to my conscience just then.   [Please select]

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Welland condoned her truancy, having that very morning won her over to the necessity of a long engagement, with time to prepare a hand-embroidered trousseau containing the proper number of dozens.   [Please select]

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