How to Use truancy in a Sentence

truancy

noun
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  • But the stress of the move and the truancy case had taken a toll.
    — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • No one answered the door, and the school counselor left a truancy package at the home.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Not much later, the police picked up Khiel for truancy and brought him home.
    — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
  • A week after the trip, Berry received the a truancy letter.
    — Diana Lambert, sacbee, 29 Oct. 2017
  • The youths will be charged in juvenile court for truancy.
    — cleveland, 26 Sep. 2021
  • No one answered the door and the official left a truancy packet.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • As is the custom, a parental note would be required for the missed day not to be counted as a pattern of truancy, which could lead to sanctions.
    — James Call, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
  • These state laws — some more than a century old — began as a tool to fight truancy.
    — Washington Post, 5 June 2017
  • Does it make sense to give students out-of-school suspensions for truancy?
    — Katy Bergen, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The lawmakers heard from some district leaders who warned the new truancy process lacks teeth.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Some, once known for fighting or truancy, were finding joy and success through their new sports.
    — Valerie Russ, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Even a police officer should not be able to find a student for truancy if they're referred by the school.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, Park Hill students should wear their activism — and their truancy warnings — as badges of honor.
    — The Kansas City Star Editorial Board, kansascity, 15 Mar. 2018
  • If it’s not excused, though, and a student has too many absences, concerns about truancy arise.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Their war was against ignorance, the bankruptcy of beauty, and the truancy of culture.
    — Negar Azimi, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • A: Maybe that I almost got kicked out of high school for fighting on campus and almost did not graduate due to my truancy record.
    — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2017
  • Carr would pick him up, sometimes as often as twice a week, until truancy issues arose.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020
  • That's also the new focus of the state's truancy efforts, which make returning a child to class the priority.
    — Patrick O'Donnell, cleveland.com, 15 May 2017
  • The goal should be a decrease in the unfavorable behaviors, such as truancy, Karubas said.
    — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • For instance, one issue in Mothee’s case was her son’s truancy the previous school year.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 21 May 2018
  • High school truancy officers will be working overtime if the Dallas edition of the fest falls on a Friday.
    — Kelly Dearmore, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Smith pointed him to the bill on truancy and public safety that the mayor introduced Wednesday.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The now 26-year-old singer inevitably dropped out of college, due to losing her Hope scholarship that covered most her tuition due to truancy.
    — Walaa Elsiddig, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Mothers and fathers spoke about their struggles to get their children to and from school, and how that has resulted in tardiness and truancy.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • At 15, O’Connor spent eighteen months at a Magdalene Asylum due to her truancy and shoplifting.
    — Erin Nyren, Variety, 26 July 2023
  • By law, children held for such minor acts as truancy were to appear before a judge within 24 hours and be released no more than a day after that.
    — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2021
  • And so, it was also surmised, area schools never had a larger truancy problem on a Wednesday.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Some school boards struggling with the growth in truancy, including Hartford's, are adapting.
    — Byron Pitts, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Golosinski said the parents and the school informed him the brothers are good students without a history of truancy.
    — Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Some lawmakers, led by council member Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), expressed concerns about reducing money for the truancy program, noting that fewer students would be helped as city officials aspire to keep more children in the classroom.
    — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 12 June 2024

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