play truant
Example Sentences
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The children's commissioner said some children play truant while others experience anxiety or have educational needs so find it easier at home.
From BBC • Sep. 3, 2023
I hadn’t had occasion to play truant in close to a decade, and ditching class elicited a familiar thrill.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018
A lyrical retelling of the Cain-and-Abel story in which four Nigerian brothers play truant from school, go fishing and meet a soothsayer who predicts that one brother will kill another.
From Economist • Dec. 3, 2015
"I thought I was going to have to play truant all morning to get through my shopping list but it's quieter than a normal Saturday," he said, amazed.
From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2010
He missed the companionship of kindred spirits, and sometimes his memory would play truant, recalling the pleasant glitter of sterling silver and conversational electroplate which accompanied his former London dinner-parties.
From The Parts Men Play by Baxter, Arthur Beverley
