absent from

Frequency: 8.020.0 per million words

Indicates the place, event, or group that someone is not part of.

absentabsent + PREPOSITION

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from

Examples (10)

  • He was absent from work for two weeks.
  • Local people were conspicuously absent from the meeting.
  • A passion that had been strangely absent from his previous performance returned.
  • Why was she absent from school yesterday?
  • I will be absent from the office next Friday.
  • Several key players are absent from today's match due to injury.
  • Kindness was entirely absent from his tone of voice.
  • If you are absent from the exam, you must provide a medical certificate.
  • The defendant has been absent from the proceedings since they began.
  • She remained absent from social media for a whole year.