Sentence examples for mostly absent and from inspiring English sources

(He was mostly absent and died in 1999).

In the floating ice-shelf channels, the ridges are mostly absent, and the surfaces are depressed.

The men are friends and the women are mostly absent and fairly terrifying.

Yet he quickly learns to hide his art, particularly from his mostly absent and disapproving father.

The usual trappings — heavy texture, pronounced oak flavors, too much sweetness and the like — are mostly absent, and prices are fairly moderate.

When comparing Norway spruce plots with adjacent broadleaved stands, topsoil pH, calcium concentrations and total earthworm biomass were significantly lower, endogeic and epi-anecic earthworms were mostly absent, and the exchangeable aluminium was significantly higher.

His father Henke, according to Dr Vorster – a defence witness, it should be remembered – was viewed by his son as "an irresponsible and mostly absent parent", and in his autobiography Pistorius described himself and his brother, growing up without their father, as "rudderless boats".

Offering a rare glimpse into the athlete's mindset, Dr Vorster told Pretoria's High Court Pistorius viewed his father, Henke Pistorius, as an "irresponsible and mostly absent parent" and was raised by a "very anxious" mother who slept with a gun under her pillow and "abused alcohol intermittently".

My mom was in and out of prison, so I lived with my mostly absent dad and my two siblings.

They grew up with mostly absent fathers and a mother who drank herself insensible every night.

Confessing exhaustion with his body of published work, he read a new personal essay, "Driscoll Van," about his relationship with his often-abusive, mostly absent father, and his own defense mechanism against it: a selective memory.