How to Use absentee in a Sentence

absentee

noun

• There were 10 sick absentees that day.
• The rise of absentee voting means that the red and blue swaths viewers see on King’s map early in the day are likely to change during the night.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Nov. 2022
• But these are just the famous names, the familiar faces, the notable absentees.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• But Biden's choice to call out Youngkin isn't solely due to his broad absentee voting push for the statewide election.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2023
• But the complicated absentee voting process is just one headache for the staff ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The main reason is the uptick in absentee voting in what is expected to be a high-turnout midterm election.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2022
• Cignetti has said the Hoosiers expect to have a few absentees due to postseason surgeries.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• For the first time ever in a statewide election, Michigan voters had the chance to vote early as well as absentee.
  — Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
• The first day of absentee in-person voting is Tuesday, May 16.
  — The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2024
• The referendum will run from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at town hall, and absentee ballots will be available at the town clerk’s office.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 30 Nov. 2022
• Ricky Bobby's credo, imprinted on him by his absentee father Reese (Gary Cole), proves to be a house of cards.
  — Terry Terrones, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• The last thing Johnson wants to be is an absentee father, especially when his daughters — ages 6 and 4 — need him most.
  — Vulture, 7 Oct. 2022
• In 2020, Trump and his allies claimed that reports of absentee vote totals from Milwaukee in the early morning the day after the election were a sign of fraud.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2022
• The only question on the ballot, and that would exceed for the early and absentee voting, the total number of people who voted in last.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 July 2023
• Exit polls include those who vote absentee or early in two ways.
  — Dan Merkle, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2022
• And that group, even without injured captain Gabriel Landeskog and absentee winger Valeri Nichushkin, was not about to give up their crown without a fight.
  — Geoff Baker, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2023
• The state must also commit to expanding absentee voting in order to keep its spot in the early window.
  — Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
• Later there’s Pearson at 4 years old, decked out in a new dress and waiting to meet the absentee mother who quickly locks her in a closet and strips off her clothes to sell in order to score drugs.
  — Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• For decades, Arizona has allowed voters to request absentee ballots, which must be returned by the time polls close on election day.
  — Arit John, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• Those four locations will be open on Election Day as well as for in-person no-excuse absentee voting from Feb. 16-18.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 19 Jan. 2023
• And mail and absentee ballots received on or close to Election Day need to be processed as well — all of which takes time, and cannot begin until Election Day or after.
  — David Becker, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2022
• And nearly one in five students missed the last Friday before winter break, nearly double the normal absentee rate.
  — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• Voters could return absentee ballots to one drop box installed at the county board of elections office.
  — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2022
• Zorich told The Star that many voters took advantage of the county’s no-excuse absentee voting — also called early voting — in the two weeks leading up to the election.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
• In fact, some Georgia counties neglected to mail any absentee ballots at all.
  — Evan Wayne Malbrough, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• But the event comes as early, in-person absentee voting is underway, with Democrats trying to drive turnout in their stronghold of Milwaukee.
  — Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2022
• The state also has yet to codify no-excuse absentee voting into law.
  — Jaden Edison, Hartford Courant, 1 Feb. 2023
• Anselm had been an absentee parent, checking in dutifully from New York but leaving them to their own devices.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• Suarez has been an absentee mayor, out of town for weeks at a time, running a longshot presidential campaign that flopped and recruiting clients in the Middle East for his law firm.
  — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2023
• Voting by Mail Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia currently allow anyone to vote absentee — that is, vote by mail.
  — Karim Doumar, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024