"absent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A figure of speech that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, or represents an absent person as being present.
- It is needless to say that I doubted the existence of the absent person described as a nurse.
- The doctors naturally made inquiries as to this absent person.
- Jean-Philippe was the most continually absent person she had ever met.
- "Adequate safeguards concerning property" provisions must be made in the case that an absent person will show up.
- But Hiroko showed just how present an absent person could be.
- If the absent person didn't mend his ways, it was possible he could end up being suspected of subversion.
- When it comes to a deceased or absent person, there is a limitation to enforce the law up to 30 years (after the death).
- How could that statue have been wielded by an absent person?
- There was no one else present; therefore it must have been an absent person.
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