Example sentences for: furlough

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

  • But Dukakis, even after hearing what Horton did on his furlough, was resistant to ending the program, which the state legislature finally did after much crusading by a local newspaper.

  • I can't remember how I did it, but somehow I smuggled those records back to my barracks and got them home intact on my next furlough.

  • Horton, you may recall, is a black man who, while doing prison time in Massachusetts for murder, escaped from a weekend furlough and committed a particularly brutal assault and rape.

  • An uncomfortable Dukakis, after dispassionately reciting statistics, conceded that the Massachusetts furlough program for murderers sentenced to life imprisonment had been canceled .

  • Recall that the candidate who first raised the prison furlough (Willie Horton) issue against Mike Dukakis in 1988 wasn't George Bush.


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