absent from duty
Example Sentences
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About 550 officers are absent from duty every day.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023
Regardless of consequences he did what few people thought he would dare do, and dismissed Leader Donovan for being "inefficient, insubordinate and absent from duty without leave."
From Time Magazine Archive
He drove to London Bridge Station, and there learned that the porter had been for a week absent from duty, having strained his back in lifting a heavy trunk.
From By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Ultonians falter while you are absent from duty in battle and council, and I, whom you brought with sweet words when half a child from my home, am left alone.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
I saw them every day as I went by to the Halles, lounging against the walls—linesmen among them, too, absent from duty without leave.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
