Sentence examples for brief leaves from inspiring English sources

To describe the marriage as an unhappy one would probably be to exaggerate, if for no other reason than that Captain Rimbaud was rarely in Charleville; each of the couple's five children was born nine months after one of his brief leaves.

Unlike my friend, I wasn't uprooting my life, just taking a brief leave.

He saw his daughter once, on a brief leave from Iraq, shortly after she was born.

The next year, he took a brief leave to ski in Zermatt.

I recently had to find a way to bake some, even though the brief left me cold.

Mr. Brodeur, whose recorded message begs callers to be brief, left eight hours of voice mail messages -- some harassing -- at the mayor's press office.

Andy Burnham, the 38-year-old rising Labour star and chief secretary to the Treasury, is tipped to fill the media, arts and cultures brief left vacant.

Ms. Black had been on the board since 1990, except for a brief leave, earning well over $2.1 million in cash and stock over the years, according to Equilar, which studies corporate pay.

My parents had just heard from my baby brother Jerry that he would be arriving home from boot camp on Friday — a brief leave before being shipped out to Vietnam less than 24 hours later.

It would have been the easiest thing in the world at this point for me to have abandoned my brief, left backstage Wembley to the bit-part players and sloped off to watch the game.

LAST winter, Tammy Guthrie, a 40-year-old mother of three from St . Petersburg Fla., took a brief leave of absence from her family to undergo some self-improvement in Los Angeles.