playing hooky
Example Sentences
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And because it is common for a few employees to walk in together, with only one swiping a badge to open the door, HR departments were reluctant to accuse anyone of playing hooky.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
If this system seems ad hoc to you—a volunteer with an overflowing basement, playing hooky from work to deliver old sewing machines that have been rehabbed by an airplane mechanic—that’s because … it is.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2022
But how does taking a “mental health day,” which Americans traditionally have construed as a “winkwink, nudge-nudge” excuse for playing hooky, improve mental health?
From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2022
When she and Isaiah started fighting, she rebelled by playing hooky.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021
“Well, if you lot are playing hooky today, no way I’m going to work. It’s simply not right.”
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
