How to Use absentee in a Sentence

absentee

noun

• There were 10 sick absentees that day.
• Georgia elections last month brought a huge spike in rejections of absentee ballots.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021
• Rules regarding absentee and mail-in voting are the most common subjects of new state election laws in the past year.
  — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
• Those are also the only forms of ID that can be used to request or cast an absentee or emergency ballot.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Dec. 2021
• Like other counties, there were far fewer absentee voters this election than in 2020.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
• Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Democrats across the country embraced absentee voting in record numbers.
  — David Wickert, ajc, 1 Jan. 2022
• As of Monday morning, about 33% of Detroit voters had already turned out to vote either early or absentee.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2024
• Four years later, 3.9 million absentee and early voting ballots were submitted.
  — Elyse Apel | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Nov. 2024
• The new law also ends the use of unstaffed drop boxes to collect absentee ballots and gives partisan poll watchers more power to observe election activities.
  — Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Dec. 2021
• The panel also noted that the ruling does not pertain to voters casting ballots under the federal law for uniformed and overseas absentee voters.
  — Ella Lee, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
• Roughly one month before Election Day, Abbott issued an order that limited each county to just one drop-off site for absentee ballots.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2021
• The rise of absentee voting means that the red and blue swaths viewers see on King’s map early in the day are likely to change during the night.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Nov. 2022
• But these are just the famous names, the familiar faces, the notable absentees.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• But Biden's choice to call out Youngkin isn't solely due to his broad absentee voting push for the statewide election.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2023
• But the complicated absentee voting process is just one headache for the staff ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The main reason is the uptick in absentee voting in what is expected to be a high-turnout midterm election.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2022
• But the shape of the race could change with thousands of outstanding absentee ballots.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2022
• Cignetti has said the Hoosiers expect to have a few absentees due to postseason surgeries.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• Just a narrow slice of Texans can vote absentee by mail.
  — Fredreka Schouten, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• The state also keeps track of all absentee ballots, which are trackable through bar codes.
  — Joshua A. Douglas, CNN, 26 July 2022
• For the first time ever in a statewide election, Michigan voters had the chance to vote early as well as absentee.
  — Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
• They will still be required to mail the ballots back to the clerks or return them in person, the same as any other absentee voter in the state.
  — Todd Richmond, Twin Cities, 25 June 2024
• The first day of absentee in-person voting is Tuesday, May 16.
  — The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2024
• Overseas absentee ballots are due Aug. 31, and many Alaskans vote by mail.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2022
• The referendum will run from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at town hall, and absentee ballots will be available at the town clerk’s office.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 30 Nov. 2022
• Ricky Bobby's credo, imprinted on him by his absentee father Reese (Gary Cole), proves to be a house of cards.
  — Terry Terrones, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• There is no in-person absentee voting on the Monday before the election.
  — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2024
• The claim spurred months of misinformation about absentee ballots in the state.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2022
• Wait went into the MyVote system and requested that the absentee ballots for Vos and Mason be sent to his address.
  — Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2022
• The last thing Johnson wants to be is an absentee father, especially when his daughters — ages 6 and 4 — need him most.
  — Vulture, 7 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024