How to Use AWOL in a Sentence

AWOL

noun

• Grab a bottle of this, as both the mango and the orange have gone AWOL.
  — Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• When continuity and plot logic are AWOL in your movie, who ya gonna call?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• But the reprieve has been renewed every 45 days for more than two years and is now an all-purpose excuse to go AWOL.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
• Cleveland’s offense, which can go AWOL at times, has graced him with an average of 5.68 runs per start this season.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
• My attempt to get a basic cocktail on my last visit turned into a comedy routine involving at least five staff members and a table mate going to the bar in search of the AWOL drink.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• Use it to zap up flour after a countertop kneading session, those little bits of onion that go AWOL between the cutting board and the pot, the pile of ground pepper that invariably gathers beneath your grinder.
  — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 11 Oct. 2022
• Many soldiers who were discharged faced charges for being AWOL and other minor misconduct, according to experts and other archival records, which also indicated administrative separations were rarely used for serious criminal offenses at the time.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Grab a bottle of this, as both the mango and the orange have gone AWOL.
  — Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• When continuity and plot logic are AWOL in your movie, who ya gonna call?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• But the reprieve has been renewed every 45 days for more than two years and is now an all-purpose excuse to go AWOL.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
• Cleveland’s offense, which can go AWOL at times, has graced him with an average of 5.68 runs per start this season.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
• My attempt to get a basic cocktail on my last visit turned into a comedy routine involving at least five staff members and a table mate going to the bar in search of the AWOL drink.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• Use it to zap up flour after a countertop kneading session, those little bits of onion that go AWOL between the cutting board and the pot, the pile of ground pepper that invariably gathers beneath your grinder.
  — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 11 Oct. 2022
• Many soldiers who were discharged faced charges for being AWOL and other minor misconduct, according to experts and other archival records, which also indicated administrative separations were rarely used for serious criminal offenses at the time.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024