sent home

Example Sentences

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According to the investigators, more than 80 percent of patients with uncomplicated myocardial infarction are currently sent home on beta blockers.

From Science Daily • May 25, 2026

They began the elimination leg in last place, meaning they had to get a move on to avoid being sent home at the halfway point of the journey.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

When the store decided not to open after all, people were sent home.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

But the courier was sent home after a Customs and Border Protection agent stopped him at the Miami airport and got the letter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

I tell her I wasn’t lying that day I got sent home in third grade.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass