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
Many Londoners took the opportunity to play truant from their responsibilities.
From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2013
Patrick was not exactly "forest born," but, as a child, loved to play truant "in the forest with his gun or over his angle-rod."
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
