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
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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
For twenty months, Miss Titcomb was absent from duty but two days, and others had a record nearly as satisfactory.
From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Bellows, Henry W.
