Sentence examples for AWOL from inspiring English sources

"AWOL" is correct and usable in written English
It is an acronym standing for "Absent Without Leave" and can be used in any context when referring to someone who is absent from their designated post without notice or permission. For example: "After going AWOL, the soldier was court-martialed".

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AWOL

adjective

Absent without leave (permission).

  • The Army had a lot of AWOL soldiers.

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When the actual prize-giving began, it turned out that two of the judges – highly respected poets who had won several awards themselves – had gone awol.

Ranger has been awol since November, Cubero has work permit problems and Orlandi's deal involves a release clause.

Reports at the time suggested three of the four Guinean athletes competing went awol, along with five from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and seven Cameroonians.

After Bosnia, his next deployment, he went AWOL.

Trade ministers will therefore need to have at least a skeleton agreement in agriculture, industrial goods and services by December 2005 when they gather in Hong Kong for the World Trade Organisation's biannual meeting.America AWOL?Unfortunately, there are several reasons to fear that the Doha negotiators will not get there.

Yet there is something withheld about him that shows itself in long silences and the occasional going AWOL.

He will now serve until the city council appoints a successor, who will serve until a special election is held next year.Even before Mr Levy went AWOL a recall petition had started to circulate.

He has her sent to Mexico, where she meets an AWOL soldier (Robert Young), and they later fall in love.

Villa's concentration appeared to go Awol as first Jamie Mackie and then Shaun Wright-Phillips were given time to pick their passes, the ball eventually being worked to the unmarked Cissé.

"That means you can have ghost employees; you can have Awol employees; individuals who are under multiple names collecting pay cheques; and there's no way to account for it.

After the spectacular no-show of the young Ukrainian at his last major London engagement (when he went Awol days before the opening of Midnight Express, in which he was due to star), even his most ardent fans may have thought twice before shelling out to see him again.

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