Truanting

Word TRUANTING
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Definitions and meanings of "Truanting"

What do we mean by truanting?

To play truant.

To idle away; to waste.

To idle away time.

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The word "truanting" in example sentences

Scott's picture centres on a 16-year-old schoolboy (played by the director's now almost equally famous brother, Tony) truanting from school for a lyrical cycle ride around the dockland area of the film-maker's native north-east England. ❋ Philip French (2010)

Some 315 of the 461 had an identified reason for such regular absenteeism, such as a medical illness, a bout of ill-health or persistent truanting, and three of the 315 had already been diagnosed as having CFS. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The majority of my students were kids who had either been excluded from school because of disruptive behaviour, or who had dropped out of the school system of their own volition and spent several years truanting before landing in my class. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The media blame all the obvious socio-economic factors such as boredom, binge-drinking, peer pressure, lack of education, truanting, the destruction of the nuclear family, and the absence of father figures, but these girl gang members also appear to have a pathetic underlying yearning to belong. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Where there is no proper home life, truanting from school also becomes a problem - the street becomes the children's home and the place wehere bonds arte forged and idenmtity affirmed. ❋ Joanna Bogle (2007)

'What on earth,' I asked her, 'were you truanting from?' ❋ Mortimer, John (2006)

She'd been truanting for some time before she decided to ran away. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

I have told her many times that she doesn't understand how vulnerable young girls are, and when the truanting began last term I felt I had no option but to take a sterner line. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

Free of Cill's influence, Louise reverted to dressing appropri­ately for a thirteen-year-old, and the brief flurry of truanting that had brought her to the unwelcome attention of her headmistress ceased abruptly. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

In any case, I didn't want the cops finding out we'd been truanting round there because I didn't know what they'd do to Grace. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

He was astonished to discover that two schoolgirls were regularly truanting in Grace's house. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

To the cyni­cal police mind, truanting came low on their list of crim­inal behavior. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

Our difficulty, as ever, was how to deal with her behavior in the long term, specifi­cally the truanting. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

Compare: "the youngster is believed to have run away after an argument with her father ..."; "neighbors mentioned constant rows between the two ..."; "[her father] was worried about her truanting ..." ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

I pointed out that Louise's version of events was very convenient, since she knew how worried we and Miss Brett had been about Cill's truanting. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

For no obvious reason Cill started truanting, and the school warned us a few weeks ago that she would be asked to leave if her poor at­tendance continued. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

I spoke to him once about Priscilla's truanting and once after she disappeared. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

She did the same with Louise and Cill ... reinforced their truanting against their parents 'wishes. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

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