Sentence examples for absence for a while from inspiring English sources

The truth is we have about 40 faculty and four took a leave of absence for a while to work for Uber.

Maybe the absence allowed for a mythology, while Jacob was cursed to be judged by the increments he fell short of perfect menschiness.

Certainly, she said, they must have a copy of every single key to every single lock they'd ever installed, or a magic key to all doors, and they entered people's homes to steal small items whose absence wouldn't be noticed for a while; worse, perhaps the locksmiths didn't steal anything, just took naps on beds that weren't theirs, drank out of people's favorite cups, shit in their toilets.

When John Ronald Reuel was three, his mother took him and his brother back to England for a while; during their absence, their father grew ill, and they made hasty plans to return.

Someone you haven't talked to or even really thought about for a while, but whose absence left a hole roughly the size of a deck of cards in your heart — or pants pocket.

For a while, the rebbe's physical absence made her spiritual yearning for him that much greater.

For a while afterwards, the reality of her absence "didn't really sink in".

For a while he….

For a while anyway.

For a while.

She temped for a while.