TRUANT in a Sentence

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The little truants immediately quitted their game, leaving the quoits on the ground with all their other playthings.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRUANT
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truant
 a.  wandering from business or duty; idle, and shirking duty
Classic Sentence:
1  It appears the truant wife of Mellors, the keeper, turned up at the cottage and found herself unwelcome.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  The scandal of the truant wife, instead of dying down, has reverberated to greater and greater dimensions.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
3  Husbands will play the truant, you know.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
4  A truant provincial was paying the forfeit of his disobedience, by being plundered of those very effects which had caused him to desert his place in the ranks.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  There they are eternally playing truant.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS
6  But they, looking down from the window, were truants, detached.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
7  The little truants immediately quitted their game, leaving the quoits on the ground with all their other playthings.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVII
Example Sentence:
1  This is not the first time that this solution has been proposed to keep truant students in class.
2  Most parents are horrified when they discover their children have been playing truant from school.
3  Police reports showed that the vast majority of crime committed by children was carried out by truants.