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    Use "furlough" in a sentence

    furlough example sentences

    furlough


    furloughed


    furloughs


    1. Tom was on furlough


    2. The questions in his mind were not resolved before they arrived at the camp, nor was there any discussion related to politics while they ate lunch, principally because they were joined by the two Polish-speaking AMGOT technical sergeants who formed the other half of the interrogation team, and they wanted to talk only about their upcoming furlough in Switzerland


    3. Elizabeth told him to request a travel authorization for Prague, and two weeks’ furlough


    4. That afternoon, Ferguson authorized his furlough request without comment, and Major Harris signed it


    5. There were also Army travel authorization forms, furlough orders and safe passage documents addressed to the various Occupying Powers made out in his name


    6. soldiers on furlough, and that he and Elizabeth were not the only Americans on their train, he was apprehensive as they rolled out of Germany and into Czechoslovakia, remembering the delays and interrogations involved in crossing frontiers when he had traveled to Italy


    7. He thought about the possibility that he could be held equally accountable for Elizabeth’s activities, if she were working to shield potential war criminals, and then he also recalled that his furlough was close to expiring, and if he weren’t back in Grabensheim within the week, he would be facing AWOL charges as well as whatever else might be in store for him if he and Elizabeth were found to be assisting wanted fugitives


    8. “Well, you take fourteen days’ furlough to visit Munich and the Bavarian recreation centers


    9. Then the day before your furlough expires, Division gets a teletype advising that you have been ordered on TDY to some outfit called the ‘Paris Recreation Service Detachment


    10. ’ The orders are back-dated, effective on the fourth day of your furlough

    11. Got thirty days furlough in the States, then came back


    12. When I ended up TDY instead of on furlough last time, they gave me back my furlough days


    13. Instead of approaching Prinzman for permission for a furlough, he took the opportunity to speak directly with Captain Lewisohn the following day when he delivered one of Sergeant Kneckerson’s cooks to have a serious burn to his hand treated


    14. Colling repeated his story about his reasons for wanting a furlough to go to Paris to First Sergeant Prinzman, who seemed annoyed that Colling had chosen to ask for Captain Lewisohn’s approval before his own, but he told Colling he would have the furlough orders and travel authorizations typed out and sent to Lewisohn for his signature


    15. Colling had the approved furlough in his hands two days later


    16. His two weeks’ furlough had begun in November, and he should have been back with his unit before Thanksgiving


    17. “Mark has two days furlough, and then we will spend a few days sharpening his mage skills and training him to cast his own power


    18. " At the beginning of the two weeks' period during which the apostles and the evangelists were to be absent from Bethsaida on their furlough, Jesus requested David to summon his parents back to their home and to dispatch messengers calling to Bethsaida ten devout women who had served in the administration of the former encampment and the tented infirmary


    19. On Friday he declared a furlough of one week that all his followers might go home or to their friends for a few days before preparing to go up to Jerusalem for the Passover


    20. My missionary grandmother not only pioneered in Africa, she helped teach churches in the States how to support missions through faith-promise giving* when she traveled here on furlough

    21. Mention needs to be made of the Feres Doctrine, which states, The United States is not liable under Tort Claims Act for injuries to members of the armed forces sustained while on active duty and not on furlough and resulting from the negligence of others in the armed forces


    22. her work furlough would be canceled and she would have to do


    23. eastern front on a furlough


    24. His furlough all arranged, he eagerly


    25. “Once at a Christmas party a few years back, when he was home on furlough


    26. He was tempted to dally in a carriage full of secretary-clones with generous chests and frugal skirts, but he remembered the Office line-up with an uncomfortable shudder, and hurried on through soldiers on furlough, holidaymakers in lurid beach clothes, and exhibitionists who leered at him as he passed, disappointed by his gender but displaying their wares anyway


    27. He had always been fond of Beatrice Wyld, and during his furlough he picked up with her again


    28. I was practically a child at the time, but I remember when he used to come home on furlough and all, all he did was lie on his bed, practically


    29. There were parties and balls and bazaars gray and gold braid and the brides in blockade-run finery, aisles of crossed swords, every week and war weddings without number, with the grooms on furlough in bright toasts drunk in blockaded champagne and tearful farewells


    30. like you girls had,” for Joe had only a few days’ furlough

    31. Maybelle Merriwether was to marry her little Zouave when he got his next furlough, and she cried every time she thought of it, for she had set her heart on marrying in a white satin dress and there was no white satin in the Confederacy


    32. depleted army since the defeat at Gettysburg-and as the Christmas season approached, The army, driven back into Virginia, went into winter quarters on the Rapidan—a tired, Ashley came home on furlough


    33. “But Ashley, surely you can’t think the Yankees will beat us? All this week you’ve talked about how strong General Lee—” “All this week I’ve talked lies, like all men talk when they’re on furlough


    34. ” furlough who forgot to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their “I beg your pardon,” said Rhett with mock humility


    35. same, he was her beau after you turned him down, because when he come home on his last furlough they got engaged


    36. But Rene had changed since that furlough when he married Maybelle Merriwether


    37. Rostov lived, as before, with Denisov, and since their furlough they had become more friendly than ever


    38. On his return from his furlough Nicholas, having been joyfully welcomed by his comrades, was sent to obtain remounts and brought back from the Ukraine excellent horses which pleased him and earned him commendation from his commanders


    39. He went to the colonel, got a furlough, bade his companions good-bye, treated his soldiers to four buckets of vódka, and got himself ready to go


    40. For the Rostóv family the whole interest of these preparations for war lay in the fact that Nicholas would not hear of remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denísov’s furlough after Christmas to return with him to their regiment

    41. Rostóv lived, as before, with Denísov, and since their furlough they had become more friendly than ever


    1. I am not being forced out, or furloughed, or anything like that


    2. They often give furloughed employees assistance in finding a new job


    1. Furloughs resulted in a spike in sexual intercourse with


    2. But outnumbering these by far were men who, though were the ones who had waited three years in vain for furloughs and while they waited carried on company rolls as deserters, had no intention of deserting permanently


    3. When furloughs from the rapidly thinning army were denied, these soldiers went home without them, to plow their land and plant their crops, repair their houses and build up ahead, they wrote these men, telling them to rejoin their companies and no questions their fences


    4. “Plow furloughs” were not looked upon in the same light as desertion in the face of the enemy, but they weakened the army just the same


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    Synonyms for "furlough"

    furlough lay off licence admission passport pass permission order ticket

    "furlough" definitions

    a temporary leave of absence from military duty


    dismiss, usually for economic reasons


    grant a leave to