In a sentence
Six example sentences with absence, each labelled with its topic.
The child's absence from school for six weeks showed up later as anxiety about crowded corridors, not lost lessons.
Psychology
In her absence the crew shot every scene without the lead, filming doorways, hands, and the back of a stand-in.
Movies
The hearing went ahead in the tenant's absence, and the court sent the ruling to her last known address.
Law
In the center's absence the team gave up twenty more rebounds a game and dropped five straight.
Basketball
The absence of oxygen in the deep sediment preserved leaves that fell more than ten thousand years ago.
Science
In the absence of a second supplier, the town's only grocer could raise prices without losing a single customer.
Economics
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