Example Sentences

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Most forcefully, she challenges what she says is a widespread misconception that dementia is a good way to go, a kind state of absentness that blinds the sufferer to the relentless decline towards death.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2010

On the edge of the bed, he found himself with one shoe unlaced, and, smiling at his absentness, relaced it.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack

Upon the mother was a kind of absentness, as ever, as if she were exiled for all her life.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Already there had crept a certain absentness into the campaigner's voice.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

In learning, goodheartedness, absentness of mind, and excessive ignorance of the world, he was a perfect Parson Adams.

From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.