Sample Sentences for
furlough
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    The company furloughed employees on the third shift.
    furloughed = ordered not do come to work
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    I had to grant him a furlough.  (source)
    furlough = temporary leave from work or duty
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    Well, if you're on furlough you must know when you have to be back.  (source)
    furlough = temporary leave from work or duty

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    He was headed back to Puerto Plata after a three-night furlough to meet his newborn son in Tamboril.  (source)
    furlough = temporary leave from work or duty
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    Other guys would get furloughs and not return—but were eventually caught.  (source)
    furloughs = temporary releases from prison
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    Pop gently counseled me that in fact I had no chance of getting furloughed, even for a funeral, unless it was my parent, my child, or maybe my sibling, and that she did not want me to get my hopes up.†  (source)
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    Billy was given an emergency furlough home because his father, a barber in Ilium, New York, was shot dead by a friend while they were out hunting deer.  (source)
    furlough = temporary leave from work or duty
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    Are you giving out furloughs at the state prison?†  (source)
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    The manager told him to come in so he could receive a medical furlough.†  (source)
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    Re furloughs.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    The first four furloughs granted, as may be imagined, were to our four friends.†  (source)
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    All this week I've talked lies, like all men talk when they're on furlough.†  (source)
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    Furlough, on the next night, that being October 29, 1969, the night Chase Andrews died, you worked at the reception desk all night.  (source)
    Furlough = a last name in this story
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    Bald and fubsy, his coat buttoned tight against a round belly, Mr. Lang Furlough testified that he owned and operated the Three Mountains Motel in Greenville and that Miss Clark had stayed at the motel from October 28 until October 30, 1969.  (source)
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    Thank you, Mr. Furlough, that's all.  (source)
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    Okay, Mr. Furlough, so far we have you leaving the reception area altogether to walk to your apartment twice, use the restroom, and return; the pizza boy bringing pizza; you paying him, et cetera; four guests checking in, two checking out; and in between all that, you completed your receipts account.  (source)
    Furlough = a last name in this story
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    Now I'd submit, Mr. Furlough, that during all that commotion, there were plenty of times that Miss Clark could have quietly walked out of her room, quickly crossed the street, and you would never have seen her.  (source)
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    I understand that, Mr. Furlough.  (source)
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