How to Use family leave in a Sentence

family leave

noun
Definition of family leavenext
  • One of the provisions that's not in the bill, that’s been dropped from the bill is paid family leave.
    — ABC News, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The Spurs will have a chance to do that once DeRozan returns from family leave.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Have the family leave at 7 a.m. and come back 12 hours later to a transformed pad.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
  • What the end of Roe v. Wade could mean in a nation without child care aid or family leave.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 9 May 2022
  • Dahlberg knows that Tallulah, a 9-month-old mixed breed, barks when her family leaves the house.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • What is this showing about sick leave, and family leave?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Read the story: When coal jobs leave, what happens to the families left behind?
    — Kristina Goetz, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Some Democrats have pushed a family leave act in the legislature for years but failed each time.
    — Wayne Williams, The Denver Post, 1 June 2020
  • Many were not sick with the virus, but took family leave to deal with such things as child care needs and school closures during the pandemic.
    — oregonlive, 3 June 2021
  • The first such flight since the air blockade carrying eight patients and their families left Sanaa on Feb. 3.
    — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2020
  • All too often, the family leaves the synagogue as well.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But Wicks was the deciding vote on a separate bill to expand family leave in the state.
    — Barbara Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Here are a few tips to set up your new business for success during family leave.
    — Stuf, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • The young princess was holding hands with her mother, Kate Middleton, as the family left church.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Top of the list is paid family leave – the U.S. is the only country in the industrialized world without it.
    — Joanne Lipman, NBC News, 10 June 2020
  • So Hardy set out to create the company's family leave plan.
    — Emma Hinchliffe and paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2022
  • But putting family leave policies on paper will not be enough.
    — CNN, 4 June 2020
  • Andrews texted the store manager to ask for family leave.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Lawmakers want to get family leave passed at the Capitol.
    — Alex Burness, The Denver Post, 29 Feb. 2020
  • If a family leaves for more than 96 hours, that family loses their room.
    — Nikita Stewart, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
  • On the other hand, our family leaves doors of unoccupied rooms open, and having a room closed off with no one in it bothers me a bit.
    — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 17 June 2023
  • That same year, 62% of South Koreans that took family leave were women.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But there's also money for child care, paid family leave.
    — ABC News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • In recent years, Congress failed to pass both paid family leave and subsidized child-care.
    — Kelsey Butler, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Ramthun said paid family leave would help prevent behavioral issues later on in a child's life that could lead to more crime.
    — Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2022
  • The family leave proposal would give parents the option of advancing up to $5,000 of the child tax credit in the first year after a child is born or adopted.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Paid family leave, however, was cut from the latest draft, which would mean the country would remain one of six in the world — and the only rich nation — without any form of it.
    — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Advocates have long blamed the country's lack of universal preschool and paid family leave.
    — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Despite their language barrier, the two become fast friends until his family leaves before the two can say a proper goodbye.
    — Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The former general manager of downtown Sacramento’s Punch Bowl Social has sued the entertainment company, claiming he was fired in retaliation for plans to take family leave.
    — Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 19 Apr. 2024

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