How to Use family leave in a Sentence

family leave

noun
  • One of the provisions that's not in the bill, that’s been dropped from the bill is paid family leave.
    ABC News, 31 Oct. 2021
  • And with that, the family left their home in Santa Rosa.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The Spurs will have a chance to do that once DeRozan returns from family leave.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The rental was trashed, the family leaving behind chairs and garbage bags stuffed with clothes.
    Ben Austen, The New Republic, 21 June 2018
  • Have the family leave at 7 a.m. and come back 12 hours later to a transformed pad.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The family left that same night in a rush, taking with them all their savings, Ms. Mejía said.
    Juan Montes, WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • What the end of Roe v. Wade could mean in a nation without child care aid or family leave.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 9 May 2022
  • Dahlberg knows that Tallulah, a 9-month-old mixed breed, barks when her family leaves the house.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • What is this showing about sick leave, and family leave?
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2020
  • His family left in 1957, during one of two major purges of Jews in the postwar years.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 4 July 2019
  • But what about new mothers out on family leave for three months?
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Read the story: When coal jobs leave, what happens to the families left behind?
    Kristina Goetz, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Most families left by choice or were bought out by the government.
    Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Some Democrats have pushed a family leave act in the legislature for years but failed each time.
    Wayne Williams, The Denver Post, 1 June 2020
  • Serena and the fairness of the WTA’s family leave act….why is there no Hawkeye on clay?
    The Si Staff, SI.com, 23 May 2018
  • When martial law was declared, my family left the Philippines and came to the United States.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 26 Nov. 2018
  • Many were not sick with the virus, but took family leave to deal with such things as child care needs and school closures during the pandemic.
    oregonlive, 3 June 2021
  • The first such flight since the air blockade carrying eight patients and their families left Sanaa on Feb. 3.
    Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2020
  • All too often, the family leaves the synagogue as well.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But Wicks was the deciding vote on a separate bill to expand family leave in the state.
    Barbara Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020
  • The school’s population fell to 55, as about a dozen students and their families left the area after Maria.
    Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 15 June 2018
  • Here are a few tips to set up your new business for success during family leave.
    Stuf, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Harbor House provides new linens to every family to use in the shelter and to take when the family leaves for a new home.
    Kate Santich, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The young princess was holding hands with her mother, Kate Middleton, as the family left church.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 26 Dec. 2019
  • On Sunday afternoon, a 5-year-old girl was shot in the ankle as the family left their Albany Park home on their way to a park.
    chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
  • The Byers family leaves Hawkins, bringing Eleven with them.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 July 2019
  • This includes up to six months of family leave and medical leave.
    Paula Rogo, Essence, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Every year, sometime around the last weekend of April, my family leaves.
    Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
  • And only 27% of private sector workers have paid family leave through their jobs.
    Dawn Huckelbridge, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2024
  • None have paid family leave or particularly strong (if any) rights to organize laws.
    Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2024

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