How to Use family leave in a Sentence
family leave
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One of the provisions that's not in the bill, that’s been dropped from the bill is paid family leave.
—ABC News, 31 Oct. 2021
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And with that, the family left their home in Santa Rosa.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
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The Spurs will have a chance to do that once DeRozan returns from family leave.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2021
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The rental was trashed, the family leaving behind chairs and garbage bags stuffed with clothes.
—Ben Austen, The New Republic, 21 June 2018
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Have the family leave at 7 a.m. and come back 12 hours later to a transformed pad.
—Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
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After a three-day stint on the family leave list, Kirby Yates is back in the Padres’ bullpen.
—Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Aug. 2017
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In time, the family left the feedlot business and moved south to Krum, north of Dallas.
—Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
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Szczur was placed on the family leave list on Thursday.
—Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Aug. 2017
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Gutierrez-Ruiz didn’t want to leave town, but there was no family left to care for him.
—Chris Outcalt, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
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The family left that same night in a rush, taking with them all their savings, Ms. Mejía said.
—Juan Montes, WSJ, 20 June 2018
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What the end of Roe v. Wade could mean in a nation without child care aid or family leave.
—Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 9 May 2022
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In some towns, families leave a trail of orange marigold petals in a path to their doorways so the spirits of the dead can find their way home.
—Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
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Dahlberg knows that Tallulah, a 9-month-old mixed breed, barks when her family leaves the house.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
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What is this showing about sick leave, and family leave?
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2020
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His family left in 1957, during one of two major purges of Jews in the postwar years.
—Marc Santora, New York Times, 4 July 2019
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But what about new mothers out on family leave for three months?
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
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Read the story: When coal jobs leave, what happens to the families left behind?
—Kristina Goetz, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2019
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There are a few places where Shannon's family leaves the urn behind.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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Martinez, who was 5 at the time of the riots, grew up hearing stories about why his family left the city.
—Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2018
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For Google, as for others, one key incentive came in the form of family leave.
—Joanne Lipman, Time, 25 Jan. 2018
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Most families left by choice or were bought out by the government.
—Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
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Some Democrats have pushed a family leave act in the legislature for years but failed each time.
—Wayne Williams, The Denver Post, 1 June 2020
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Serena and the fairness of the WTA’s family leave act….why is there no Hawkeye on clay?
—The Si Staff, SI.com, 23 May 2018
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When martial law was declared, my family left the Philippines and came to the United States.
—Eric Johnson, Recode, 26 Nov. 2018
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After the family left, repo men showed up for their two cars, and their house was foreclosed.
—Times Staff, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
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Already the student body was too large for its building, and more families left the church every month.
—Alden Woods, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
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Many were not sick with the virus, but took family leave to deal with such things as child care needs and school closures during the pandemic.
—oregonlive, 3 June 2021
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The first such flight since the air blockade carrying eight patients and their families left Sanaa on Feb. 3.
—Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2020
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All too often, the family leaves the synagogue as well.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
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And to support its shift workers, Volkswagen increased time off, improved family leave policies, and increased shift assignment lead times.
—Mind Share Partners, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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