How to Use truancy in a Sentence

truancy

noun

• But the stress of the move and the truancy case had taken a toll.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2022
• No one answered the door, and the school counselor left a truancy package at the home.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
• Not much later, the police picked up Khiel for truancy and brought him home.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
• A week after the trip, Berry received the a truancy letter.
  — Diana Lambert, sacbee, 29 Oct. 2017
• The youths will be charged in juvenile court for truancy.
  — cleveland, 26 Sep. 2021
• No one answered the door and the official left a truancy packet.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
• As is the custom, a parental note would be required for the missed day not to be counted as a pattern of truancy, which could lead to sanctions.
  — James Call, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
• These state laws — some more than a century old — began as a tool to fight truancy.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2017
• Does it make sense to give students out-of-school suspensions for truancy?
  — Katy Bergen, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
• The lawmakers heard from some district leaders who warned the new truancy process lacks teeth.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
• Some, once known for fighting or truancy, were finding joy and success through their new sports.
  — Valerie Russ, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• Even a police officer should not be able to find a student for truancy if they're referred by the school.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
• In fact, Park Hill students should wear their activism — and their truancy warnings — as badges of honor.
  — The Kansas City Star Editorial Board, kansascity, 15 Mar. 2018
• If it’s not excused, though, and a student has too many absences, concerns about truancy arise.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
• Their war was against ignorance, the bankruptcy of beauty, and the truancy of culture.
  — Negar Azimi, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• In other words, switching to enrollment would take schools off the hook in battling truancy.
  — Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
• A: Maybe that I almost got kicked out of high school for fighting on campus and almost did not graduate due to my truancy record.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2017
• Carr would pick him up, sometimes as often as twice a week, until truancy issues arose.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020
• That's also the new focus of the state's truancy efforts, which make returning a child to class the priority.
  — Patrick O'Donnell, cleveland.com, 15 May 2017
• The goal should be a decrease in the unfavorable behaviors, such as truancy, Karubas said.
  — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
• But Mendelson said lawmakers should have some idea of whether the new truancy approach works by the time Bowser introduces a budget in the spring.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• Another bill takes aim at the state’s increasing truancy rates that show nearly 1 in 5 students missed more than 10% of school last year.
  — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2024
• For instance, one issue in Mothee’s case was her son’s truancy the previous school year.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 21 May 2018
• High school truancy officers will be working overtime if the Dallas edition of the fest falls on a Friday.
  — Kelly Dearmore, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2020
• Smith pointed him to the bill on truancy and public safety that the mayor introduced Wednesday.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• The now 26-year-old singer inevitably dropped out of college, due to losing her Hope scholarship that covered most her tuition due to truancy.
  — Walaa Elsiddig, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2022
• Mothers and fathers spoke about their struggles to get their children to and from school, and how that has resulted in tardiness and truancy.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• At 15, O’Connor spent eighteen months at a Magdalene Asylum due to her truancy and shoplifting.
  — Erin Nyren, Variety, 26 July 2023
• By law, children held for such minor acts as truancy were to appear before a judge within 24 hours and be released no more than a day after that.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2021
• And so, it was also surmised, area schools never had a larger truancy problem on a Wednesday.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024