How to Use truant in a Sentence

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• The parents or guardians of truant children could face a $2000 fine or up to one year in jail.
  — Alexis Jones, Marie Claire, 16 Aug. 2019
• In the story, Rich and some friends had played truant one afternoon.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• Montgomery was playing hooky from school and Hurt was on truant patrol.
  — R.j. Rico, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
• There’s a scene where the truant middle-schoolers find a brick of white that’ll have parents in the audience clutching their pearls.
  — Craig D. Lindsey, Chron, 23 Feb. 2023
• Officers responded to a residence Sept. 13 for a report of three youths who were truant from the city schools.
  — cleveland, 26 Sep. 2021
• Her mother went to the police station and reported her truant.
  — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 7 May 2020
• Older students kept home could be found truant and forced to surrender their placements.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• That could be a bigger problem if a student already has a lot of those and the extra one results in him or her being considered truant.
  — Doug Criss, Cnn design: Joyce Tseng, CNN, 12 Mar. 2018
• Depending on local laws, parents can also face jail time and fines when their children are truant.
  — Samantha M. Shapiro, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• The President made good on his threat, fired the truant eleven thousand three hundred and forty-five controllers, and banned them from federal employment for life.
  — Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017
• The bill would allow cuts when enrolled students are frequently truant.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2017
• Madani’s work is like a truant love child of scatological transgressions by the late Mike Kelley and the feminist media smarts of artist Barbara Kruger.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The police did not initially investigate it as a crime because the teenager was often truant.
  — Sophie Rebmann, Nadine Schmidt and Judith Vonberg, CNN, 7 June 2018
• To be sure, the overwhelming majority of truant students do not become school shooters.
  — Dallas News, 23 June 2022
• Plenty of parents can’t even get their kids to log in: Each month during the spring shutdowns, Education Week asked teachers what share of their kids were truant, and the answers averaged 20–25 percent.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Homeless students were more than three times as likely to be truant — having at least 15 unexcused absences in a 90-day period — than their more well-to-do counterparts.
  — Kate Santich, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• Lawmakers learned recently that the Uvalde shooter was often truant.
  — Dallas News, 11 July 2022
• She was sent to a truant school, but eventually stopped going altogether.
  — Yosha Gunasekera, Marie Claire, 11 May 2018
• According to the presentation, failure to serve detention, being tardy or truant were the main reasons high school students were served in-school suspensions.
  — Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2022
• Small also said the district recently stopped alerting law enforcement when students are truant.
  — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2022
• Most of the truancy tickets were written after the law banning schools from referring truant students to police for tickets went into effect.
  — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 26 May 2022
• Under a law that went into effect in 2019, the Illinois legislature banned schools from referring truant students to police so that they could be ticketed.
  — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 26 May 2022
• The nature of the inquiry is unclear, but the probe is focused on Ballou High School, where allegations were first raised about diplomas wrongly awarded to chronically truant students.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• This inspires the once apathetic student body — in particular the chronically truant Abbi (Kaitlyn Dever) — to hit the books in the hope of making Jesse pay up.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2021
• Claire is honest and lacerating about the pull of prestige, especially for a woman whose coming of age entailed truant punks knocking each other’s teeth out with baseball bats.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2021
• The virus sapped many districts of the personnel to reliably track students who were truant or absent, and the state enrollment census was taken early in the year, during a surge in infections that may have distorted the numbers.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2022
• Under the law, however, parents could still be held criminally liable for their truant children.
  — Sandra Baker, star-telegram, 8 May 2018
• One program punished parents of habitually truant school children with severe fines and jail time.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2020
• This is hardly a surprise, given that nearly a quarter of students were truant and that, even as the spring semester ground to an end, only a fifth of school districts expected teachers to provide real-time instruction.
  — Matthew Rice, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• The school makes daily phone calls to absent students and frequent home visits — one week last month, school representatives showed up at the residences of 14 students who were truant or needed help with virtual learning.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024