truancy

Example Sentences

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Older students faced fines or a suspended driver’s license for truancy.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2025

Mr Tate, who also banned shouting, said internal truancy - when pupils are in school but not lessons - was now "almost nil" and there was better focus in classrooms.

From BBC • May 21, 2025

It also forbade suspensions and expulsions for truancy and tardiness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025

Harriet’s spying is partly the product of her parents’ truancy and partly a result of her deep affection for the world around her and all those who inhabit it.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2025

In those bright days of truancy we had never thought of What We Owed Devon, as the sermon this opening day exhorted us to do.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles