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Meanings of play truant in anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "dog"
Examples for "dog"
1
The place was silent as the grave; not even a dog barked.
2
Parker refused to say whether the comments were racist or dog-whistle politics.
3
Outside the wind blew; far away in the distance a dog barked.
4
She opened it and found the tail of the little china dog.
5
The dog too went: the most noble-looking item in the beggarly assets.
1
Sahwah lay motionless in the snow beside the wreck of the bob.
2
Why, you know, ma'am, I make near thirty bob extra every week.
3
The Rinks and bob run are admittedly among the best in Switzerland.
4
And so the record American Bob Schumacher set nine years ago stands.
5
However Blue Bubble chief executive Bob Wilkinson said this was not true.
1
I shook his hand and said, 'Goodbye, Charlie.' 'Goodbye, kid,' he says.
2
It didn't have the new age, albeit familiar sound of good kid.
3
I was just a kid; I didn't question why he was home.
4
It's as easy as losin' your kid's child support money in Vegas.
5
He was also just a good mannerable kid -youknow, raised right.
1
Some gamers might be quite happy to ditch the physical market forever.
2
The companies' decision to appeal directly to Trump was a last-ditch gamble.
3
Schulz strode across the ditch by the road; Christophe leaped the fence.
4
On the other side of the ditch something moved in the grass.
5
But I think that we are asking questions here about last-ditch efforts.
1
However the last great dip was more than 20 million years ago.
2
That's despite a dip in the number of new cases reported yesterday.
3
Blanch 5 minutes; cold dip; drain and pack into the cans dry.
4
Just dip the pads in water or use your usual cleansing products.
5
Traders often use options as insurance against a dip in the market.
1
The next moment the boy heard Thede moving in the bunk above.
2
In the darkness, cylinder in hand, I crept softly from the bunk.
3
When Harold was in his bunk the little maid was brought in.
4
Long, frightening howls carried by the wind into our open bunk windows.
5
The man in the bunk in the lumbermen's camp is wild again.
1
So I'll just skip to the point: we have a major problem.
2
Problem is, your self-restraint is so good you often skip meals altogether.
3
In my experience, health insurance is simply a payment to skip queues.
4
Honestly, I could skip work entirely and he wouldn't know the difference.
5
If I don't have something good to say, I skip the subject.
1
But today is a new day, said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
2
You could talk all day and never get an answer, Mitch thought.
3
Earlier, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised swift action of some sort.
4
Winehouse's father Mitch said the family was honored by the MTV tribute.
5
It is a party house, surely Mitch and Mark can accept that.
1
The tits experienced no difficulty in ripping this off with the beak.
2
You will find the beak lying by the side of the body.
3
And then my little bird-like beak would rise proudly in the air.
4
And the bird was of green and yellow with a red beak.
5
I take it to be a water rail, judging from the beak.
1
It'd give any one the pip for the rest of his natural.
2
Would my international competitors pip me to the post on key projects?
3
She said Bucky told her it was a pip of a fire.
4
Feeding all by myself in that dining-room fairly gives me the pip.
5
Nibletts certified the cause of death as that unmentionable complaint, the pip.
1
One wag said it was living on the set of Blade Runner.
2
This was too much for a wag in the gallery, who yelled:-
3
And his drooping plume of a tail began to wag in response.
4
A wag, he tells me, has already made this amendment on Facebook.
5
They may have less to wag their fingers at in the future.
1
If companies felt the jig was up, that could change their behaviour.
2
A man in the middle of the room was dancing a jig.
3
His confederate confessed to the whole scheme and the jig was up.
4
Benny began to jig up and down in a frenzy of excitement.
5
She wanted to get up and dance a jig on the green.
1
And it is calling on New Zealanders to 'dob' those people in.
2
They do a thorough dob, with their knuckle-dusters and their spiked shoes.
3
And it's calling on New Zealanders to dob those people in.
4
WOULD you dob in your neighbour for leaving their home unoccupied?
5
They would chink up the cracks with grass and dirt-whatthey called 'dob'.
1
They skive off to the loo for a sneaky fag, and return grinning.
2
So I began to skive off to do pub theatre.
3
But knowing Atkinson he'll probably skive off outside where the true musicians will be smoking furiously.
4
This desire to succeed and stay upright drowns out most self-doubt and I vow not to skive off any lessons.
5
Me and the other Hufflepuffs were thinking we'd skive out of astronomy club early and be there at half past eleven.
1
Nice guy, s'long as you don't sluff on the job, that is.
2
I'd never managed to get such a babe to sluff around my kitchen half naked when I'd tried sober dating.
3
This one was smaller, more like a wet sluff, but still big enough to knock either of us off our feet.
4
It looks like you have to lose a club trick, but if an opponent leads a heart, you will get a sluff and a ruff.
5
We waded through waist-deep snow and endured the sluffs, pitch after pitch.
1
Penetrates, kind of sag off, and he hits me for a 3, Gordon said.
2
Simmons' notorious lack of an outside shot has allowed defenders to sag off him, crowding the paint for Embiid.
3
Over with it, you there! Captain Davenport held the lead line and watched it sag off to the northeast.
4
The telephone Jack had used shuddered forward, then sagged off the wall.
5
But steadily, port tack and starboard tack, she sagged off to the westward.
1
My sophomore year in high school I decided I was going to skip class.
2
They'd skip class to dig jazz and debate their place in Cold War America.
3
I mean, it's like, why don't we all just skip class and, like, hang.
4
If you waste $50 each time you skip class, would you do it?
5
The uniforms, which are equipped with GPS devices developed by a local tech firm, are meant to ensure that students don't skip class.
1
They skive off to the loo for a sneaky fag, and return grinning.
2
So I began to skive off to do pub theatre.
3
But knowing Atkinson he'll probably skive off outside where the true musicians will be smoking furiously.
4
This desire to succeed and stay upright drowns out most self-doubt and I vow not to skive off any lessons.
5
'Lot of things happened since you skived off home', Fogarty said sourly.
1
But that MiG comes back, anything comes back or around, bug out.
2
If you bug out now, where are you going to go-backto Baldy?
3
Tlitoo picked a bug out of Rissa's fur and swallowed it.
4
Wouldn't their eyes bug out, to see 'em handled like that?-wouldn'tthey, though?'
5
You took a year off and got the travel bug out of your system.
1
Kurt'll probably ask you to help him bump off George next week.
2
You can't bribe me to stand around while you bump off Donnegan.
3
But what could my reason be for wanting to bump off Quade?
4
My guess was that he wanted to bump off your friend.
5
Well, he's been wrong ever since I had to bump off Tim Harrigan.
1
Thinking about the dinner party-andafterward, when she and Allan would bunk off together.
2
I log out of the secure terminal and bunk off home early: your taxes at work.
3
You could perhaps bunk off work and invite the postman in for a cup of tea.
4
Roger Topley used to bunk off every week so Sanderson never even had his name on the register.'
5
I was about 14 and I used to bunk off school and gets teas for the stunt teams.
1
I'd cut class, and we'd drive from Boston down to Lincoln Woods.
2
Two and a half years into a three-year commitment, though, Spector cut class.
3
I have friends who are more careful when they cut class.
4
Yet you can also fully believe her when she says, I never cut class.
5
Nearly all of my comrades were used to clear- cut class distinctions in civilian life.
Usage of play truant in anglès
1
Dare you play truant for a little while and walk on the sands?
2
It isn't right of you to encourage him to play truant.'
3
They should all be in school, but he wasn't about to play truant officer.
4
Do you always mean to play truant from evening service?'
5
What a school-house is the world, if our wits would only not play truant!
6
To play truant to sit on a bench and sulk!
7
I did not often dare to play truant; and the school became odious to me.
8
But today he simply had to play truant.
9
A lawyer cannot play truant in term-time without-
10
Their high resolve to play truant at all costs had begotten a wonderful sense of fellowship.
11
In stopping to persuade Richard not to play truant, he had come near being too late.
12
The point to be settled was, whether it would be safe to play truant for the day.
13
Is it becoming a suitor to play truant when he wishes to hear favorably from his 'ladye fayre'?
14
I soon tired of school, and began to play truant; generally wandering along the wharves, gazing at the ships.
15
There is a risk that schoolchildren might be tempted to play truant for the chance of a few coins.
16
Parents of children who persistently commit crimes or play truant from school could face the loss of child benefit.
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