How to Use truancy in a Sentence

truancy

noun
  • But the stress of the move and the truancy case had taken a toll.
    — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • No one answered the door, and the school counselor left a truancy package at the home.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • No one answered the door, and the school counselor left a truancy package at the home.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2024
  • These state laws — some more than a century old — began as a tool to fight truancy.
    — Washington Post, 5 June 2017
  • Not much later, the police picked up Khiel for truancy and brought him home.
    — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Kim said mentors were not aware of youth’s drug use, truancy or other problems.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Some, once known for fighting or truancy, were finding joy and success through their new sports.
    — Valerie Russ, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The current problem we are faced with, truancy and juvenile crime, is not a new one.
    — Karl Bickel, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Carr would pick him up, sometimes as often as twice a week, until truancy issues arose.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The lawmakers heard from some district leaders who warned the new truancy process lacks teeth.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • No one answered the door and the official left a truancy packet.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • If it’s not excused, though, and a student has too many absences, concerns about truancy arise.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Even a police officer should not be able to find a student for truancy if they're referred by the school.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Writing is a form of sustained mischievous truancy.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Punitive truancy laws don’t address the real reasons kids miss school.
    — Jon England, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
  • In other words, switching to enrollment would take schools off the hook in battling truancy.
    — Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
  • School districts have had to consider whether to ease or maintain their truancy policies.
    — Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The staff thought that being closer would help diminish truancy.
    — Johnathan Hamilton, Teen Vogue, 31 May 2018
  • That approach is far different from sending a truancy officer to a home to make threats.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
  • School districts had paused punitive actions such as truancy court for those with a lot of unexcused absences.
    — Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • For instance, one issue in Mothee’s case was her son’s truancy the previous school year.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 21 May 2018
  • Their war was against ignorance, the bankruptcy of beauty, and the truancy of culture.
    — Negar Azimi, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The parent also was cited with a local ordinance for the truancy.
    — Deborah Kadin, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • In fact, Park Hill students should wear their activism — and their truancy warnings — as badges of honor.
    — The Kansas City Star Editorial Board, kansascity, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Their issues ranged from housing to truancy and family issues.
    — Cleo Krejci, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • And so, it was also surmised, area schools never had a larger truancy problem on a Wednesday.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Doctor's notes will now excuse absences from truancy, but not from chronic absenteeism.
    — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Some school boards struggling with the growth in truancy, including Hartford's, are adapting.
    — Byron Pitts, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The goal should be a decrease in the unfavorable behaviors, such as truancy, Karubas said.
    — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • Mothers and fathers spoke about their struggles to get their children to and from school, and how that has resulted in tardiness and truancy.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019

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