Sentence examples for brief absences from inspiring English sources

In these brief absences, a guerrilla entered, silently picked up our plates, and motioned to my translator and me to follow him to another room.

In New Hampshire, company representatives referred to their brief absences from the office, when they were supposedly rounding up signatures, as "taking a 10-minute trip to Kennebunkport".

Pink also disappears from the costumes, for when dancers re-enter after brief absences their attire is as plain as it was at the beginning.

In that building, in Turin, Levi was born to a respectable bourgeois couple in 1919, and, apart from a few brief absences — his year in Auschwitz, for example — he lived there all his life.

With brief absences, when she returned to South Africa, in the 1920s and 1930s or to dance with other companies, such as the Markova-Dolin Ballet where she worked with Bronislava Nijinska, Maude remained with Ballet Rambert from 1927 until 1940.

The brief absence of gunfire could prove troubling for defense lawyers.

I have enormous faith in my consultant colleagues to safely manage my patients in my brief absence next week.

The decision to allow him back after such a brief absence was not a popular one among some of his competitors.

He got in late one evening and found a message waiting for him, written out on a blank headed "The following message was received during your brief absence".

Clearly he has a stock of good remedies off-stage because after a brief absence to change her frock (what you do when you have a headache), she returns, ready for action.

Sorry for the brief absence from the blog (was doing an interview for Indian TV and also guesting on the Guardian Daily news podcast with some normal, well-informed, widely-travelled people who know about stuff other than sport).