Sentence examples for someone's absence from inspiring English sources

In a city such as London, home to 8 million people, how could someone's absence go unnoticed for so long?

At the time, I was Irving Wardle's deputy on the Times and understood all too well the agony of the understudy whose presence defines someone else's absence.

These people are not slinging mud to wreck someone's reputation in the absence of even the slightest hint of truth.

Indeed, as Ginet (1990: 9) appears to allow, an event with the indicated intrinsic quality might be brought about by direct stimulation of someone's brain, in the absence of any relevant desire or intention on the part of that person.

"You know, you can tell when someone's really looking at a body by the absence of parallel dents.

Having no family in Newcastle Emma had also trusted someone to help her in David's absence.

With a new quarterback in Tom Brady, it was critical for the Patriots to find someone who could make up for Glenn's absence.

Adele's 'sin' was double-dealing (none of us has ever said one thing to someone's face and another in their absence, have we?) The house listened with horror at the baying as she opened the Big Brother door to leave.

"If someone stops drinking and doesn't fill the void left by alcohol's absence, the result is that he or she will likely start drinking again".

It was, she recalled, a memory of her mother's absence -- of going from room to room looking for someone, but never finding who she was missing.

Perhaps the absence of music in someone's life says volumes more than any cache of aged, dusty discs can.