Sentence examples for gone absent from inspiring English sources

The defence secretary's brain has gone absent without leave.

Then comes the lover or colleague who's turned sour or gone absent.

Within eight months she had gone absent without leave and returned to the Irish stables.

Even the spare key was gone, absent from the bunch of house keys kept in the corridor.

Jimmy Carter issued a blanket pardon for all those who had evaded the draft during the Vietnam War (the amnesty applied only to those civilians who had refused induction and not to the thousands of service members who had deserted or gone absent without leave).

"Among them was an officer in the Azerbaijani army". Mr Babayev said that part of the group was detained at the weekend in the village of Mashtagi, near Baku, including the military officer, who had recently gone absent from his post.

Some soldiers began to go absent without leave.

After deployment, Mr. Bunn, suicidal and haunted by nightmares, went absent without leave.

But the war hero trumps the national guardsman who went absent without leave.

And they can also survive leadership changes, as the Gambino family proved when Paul Castellano and John Gotti went absent.

Would I notice if someone went absent for six months, a year, three years?