Get to know Truancy better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like hooky.
Truancy in a sentence
Truancy meaning
The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.
Synonyms of Truancy
Using Truancy
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.
- Useful related words include: hooky, nonattendance.
- In the example corpus, truancy often appears in combinations such as: truancy rate, for truancy, and truancy.
Context around Truancy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Truancy
- In this selection, "truancy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, school, hold, decreasing, rates, program and officers stand out and add context to how "truancy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and a truancy officer in and and her truancy resulted in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "truancy" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with truancy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One young inmate told Hendrick he was in for truancy. (10 words)
Waiting until truancy letters arrive and academic setbacks are pronounced only leads to undue stress on the entire family system. (20 words)
But the bit that had the most resonance for me was her effort to combat primary school truancy in Frisco. (20 words)
He stressed that the double-track system will breed indiscipline, truancy and chaos at the second cycle institutions, something he claims the Mahama-led NDC government fought very hard through the abolishment of the shift system. (36 words)
Some of the East Midlands' urban secondary schools hold truancy rates above that of the national average, whereas truancy rates in the region's rural secondary schools tend to be lower than the national average. (35 words)
Data showed Basildon Upper Academy in Basildon, Essex, had the highest rate of truancy of any state-run secondary school in the country, with a 15.4% increase in non-attendance compared to last year. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Some of the East Midlands' urban secondary schools hold truancy rates above that of the national average, whereas truancy rates in the region's rural secondary schools tend to be lower than the national average.
But a 2018 report from LIT and the Center for Popular Democracy found police presence in Milwaukee schools and the district’s truancy program discriminated against Black and brown students and students with disabilities.
This obligation goes back to the days of yore, when truancy officers pounded on doors and dragged the little rascals back to their desk.
Data showed Basildon Upper Academy in Basildon, Essex, had the highest rate of truancy of any state-run secondary school in the country, with a 15.4% increase in non-attendance compared to last year.
One young inmate told Hendrick he was in for truancy.
Smaller school systems, Saraland, Satsuma and Chickasaw also showed a positive trend in decreasing truancy within one year of working with HFI.
Waiting until truancy letters arrive and academic setbacks are pronounced only leads to undue stress on the entire family system.
But the bit that had the most resonance for me was her effort to combat primary school truancy in Frisco.
In that post, she created a re-entry program for low-level drug offenders and cracked down on student truancy.
She quickly developed a chatbot system that not only helps with truancy but also can assist students struggling with their work, troubleshoot tech issues and provide confidential healthcare referrals.
As a pinned thread on her profile, Colbert has listed a and “receipts” that defend Harris from attacks, including those questioning her implementation of a truancy program that affected low-income California residents.
Each year, she sent a letter to every San Francisco parent of public school students, warning them of potential prosecution for truancy.
He graduated with a bachelor’s in elementary education at 39, and eventually earned his master’s, becoming a teacher and a truancy officer in Gallup.
He stressed that the double-track system will breed indiscipline, truancy and chaos at the second cycle institutions, something he claims the Mahama-led NDC government fought very hard through the abolishment of the shift system.
Putnam County “had a lot of trouble with ‘crime, domestic violence, violence and truancy, and things of that nature,” according to another 7th Circuit judge, according to Liles’ April 30 response.
Two were fired for truancy while the fifth was found guilty of receiving and transferring money from prisoners’ private accounts into his own bank account.
Willow River administrative staff will be attending training on how to better combat truancy issues within the state, Superintendent Bill Peel reported.
Both Truffaut and Doinel were only children of loveless marriages; they both committed petty crimes of theft and truancy from the military.
For school truancy the most number of persistent truants are in Manchester with a rate of 7.3%, followed by Knowsley with 6.9%, and Blackpool with 6.6%.
Holiday frequently skipped school and her truancy resulted in her being brought before the juvenile court on January 5, 1925, when she was nine years old.
Common combinations with truancy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: