How to Use absent without leave in a Sentence

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• Beagle said the Army may also take disciplinary action of its own, including charges of being absent without leave and theft of a weapon from the base.
  — Meg Kinnard, USA TODAY, 6 May 2021
• Caesar is stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, but has been absent without leave since April 2.
  — Fox News, 29 Apr. 2018
• The airman also faced a charge of being absent without leave from Nov. 27 until he was apprehended on Dec. 2.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2020
• He was removed from this agency during the academy process for being absent without leave.
  — Breanna Edwards, Essence, 29 Aug. 2019
• Those absent without leave scientists were not just stiffing their home institutions, Lauer points out.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
• In May, the Pentagon was forced to pull the plug on a training program for Afghan pilots in Texas after a government watchdog discovered that some 40 percent of the students were reported as absent without leave.
  — Fox News, 11 Dec. 2019
• The panel found there were no detailed procedures for what commanders of small units should do if a soldier is missing, but not necessarily AWOL, or absent without leave.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 Dec. 2020
• The letter also sought extensive documentation on base policies and procedures, including details on how soldiers are determined to be absent without leave and how search-and-rescue operations are conducted for missing service members.
  — Chuck Lindell, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020

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