Example sentences for: absentee

How can you use “absentee” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Remote Internet voters will, like those using absentee ballots, have a slightly wider voting window than those going to physical locations.

  • Many of the men who benefited were absentee landlords who needed people to manage the land for them.

  • Ireland's British rulers refused to curtail exports of wheat from the country, which could have fed thousands, and heartless absentee British landlords evicted starving tenants.

  • In a 1994 investigation of absentee ballot forgery, authorities questioned nearly 1,000 Alabamians in predominantly black counties.

  • The program, Parents' Fair Share, which tries to help mostly black and Hispanic high-school drop-out absentee fathers via training and counseling, has been found in an independent study not to have increased their earnings and to have only marginally increased the amount of money they give their kids.


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