Sentence examples similar to began absent from inspiring English sources

But Ms. Lopez entered reading her mail and began absent-mindedly bending down and munching the chocolates without going to the bedroom.

On the verso is a poem beginning "Absent or present still to thee" in Byron's hand.

Because "hostilities" is "an ambiguous standard," he has argued, the president need not withdraw forces to meet the resolution's requirement of an automatic pull-out, 60 days after "hostilities" begin, absent express Congressional approval for the war.

In the fall of 1739, Richardson began to absent himself from his wife in the evenings, after work at the printing press.

Sometime around 1577, John Shakespeare began to absent himself from town meetings and then frantically to sell and mortgage all the properties in his wife's inheritance.

During the years of his marriage, his personal habits grew increasingly atypical; he began to absent himself in the hills outside Mecca to engage in the solitary spiritual activity of the ḥanīfs.

He begins to absent himself from her at unexplained times or for obligations that he must know she knows don't exist.

They become sick-listed, and hence begin being absent from work.

Some soldiers began to go absent without leave.

Vancouver's raccoon population has increased 20-fold since the 1940s and coyotes – formerly absent here – began appearing during the 1980s.

In all observed cases, absent males began to sing while returning to the rest of the group.