6 sentences with 'absent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word absent and other words derived from it.
• « At this time kings and queens expected respect and deference, but conspicuously absent was any appeal to what was later called the "Divine Right" of monarchs to rule. »
• « It took until the end of the 19th century for the Industrial Revolution to "arrive" in places like northern Italy and the cities of western Russia, with some countries like Spain completely absent until the 20th century. »
• « At times it seemed as if he was about to kiss them, especially when they hurt themselves or at bedtime, but this absent father restrained himself. »
• « Estar en Babia: To be distracted, thinking about something else, as if absent. Example: -You never answer me when I ask you, you are always in Babia. »
• « But photosynthesis released oxygen, a corrosive and poisonous gas hitherto absent from the earth's atmosphere, a new pollutant that literally burned prokaryotes alive. »
• « Elsewhere in the famous 1776 letter quoted above, she speaks of the difficulties of running the farm when her husband is absent. »