truant

Example Sentences

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In June 1530 Hans Holbein the Younger was rounded up for being a truant from the Reformed Church and its newfangled Eucharist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

As one might have predicted, the trio of 14-year-old supposedly truant adolescents quickly overwhelmed the comic.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

And man, that idea, that image of 22 public integrity lawyers locked in a room like truant children until they knuckle under, and somebody is going to file it.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2025

But Melody Edmiston, one of two staffers at King County Court who handles these cases, says often kids have been truant 80 or 90 or even 100 days before any paperwork lands on her desk.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024

Even as children we had a great love for them, they drew us vaguely thither, we played truant the whole day by them and listened to their rustling.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque