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
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 Russell, George William
Blest with perfect health, he was not absent from duty through indisposition for a single day in his two years' campaigning.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring
Naturally, one rule applies to the whole staff, and I shall not expect any one to be absent from duty except on Christmas Day itself, which will be treated as a Sunday.
From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.
