How to Use family leave in a Sentence

family leave

noun
  • Most families left by choice or were bought out by the government.
    Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Another camera outside the store shows the family leaving, with the child still holding the doll.
    Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 18 June 2019
  • When martial law was declared, my family left the Philippines and came to the United States.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 26 Nov. 2018
  • The entire family left the store and marched straight over to customer relations without a single pit-stop, to sing Jen’s praises.
    Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 10 June 2019
  • Speaking of the interiors, most of the furniture and paintings today remain just as the Church family left them.
    Cator Sparks, House Beautiful, 3 May 2019
  • My family left Somalia due to the civil war and resettled in Nairobi, Kenya.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2019
  • In fact, the reason why her family left Russia was to provide better opportunities for her sister's tennis career.
    Jenna Ortiz, azcentral, 6 June 2019
  • 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
  • Have the family leave at 7 a.m. and come back 12 hours later to a transformed pad.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Top of the list is paid family leave – the U.S. is the only country in the industrialized world without it.
    Joanne Lipman, NBC News, 10 June 2020
  • And in the Golden State, paid family leave only provides partial wages.
    Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 16 June 2024
  • Shaking off the ‘ex-prisoner’ label The convict recruits will be allowed the same family leave as other soldiers and will be entitled to the same salary but won’t receive the annual leave that is standard for other troops, according to the law.
    Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 13 June 2024

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