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few days off
noun as in holiday
noun as in vacation
Example Sentences
He took a few days off to celebrate – numerous photos of a big post-election party at Mar-a-Lago hit the internet during the past week or so – and then he got down to business appointing candidates for 12 Cabinet positions in 12 days.
Two people have been confirmed dead and several more are missing after two separate boats capsized in the past few days off Northern California’s Bodega Bay amid increasingly dangerous winds.
So, on the eve of Monday’s off-day earlier this week, manager Dave Roberts called Freeman with an idea: The team wanted him to take a few days off and let his finger — which will take four to six weeks to fully heal, but isn’t believed to be at risk of getting worse since it’s a non-displaced fractured — get a reprieve.
But once he relented, the 34-year-old recognized another benefit of taking a few days off.
But after Roberts’ insistence for Freeman to give his ailing finger a few days off, the veteran slugger realized the mini-reset might not be the worst idea.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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