Used in a Sentence

truant

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for truant.

Editorial note

I think the truant officers ignored me for two reasons: because I didn't look like a truant, and because I lived near a college campus.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

An idle or lazy person; an idler.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of truant gathered in one view.

noun

An idle or lazy person; an idler.

adjective

Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.

adjective

(specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for truant.

noun

(specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.

Example sentences

1

I think the truant officers ignored me for two reasons: because I didn't look like a truant, and because I lived near a college campus.

2

Funny that the Truant Officer's name is on the bottom along with the board of education.

3

What will save them is those precious daylight hours they spend truant from your mind-numbing institutions.

4

Skip the Johnny Truant bits and its half the length with hardly anything of value lost.

5

Additionally, the dominant school of thought is that truancy is a systemic problem which in practice means that there are rarely consequences for truant children or their parents.

6

I think that the truant officer threatened her with a ticket that would have led to a fine.

7

Skip the Johnny Truant parts and skim past all the creative layout stuff.

8

About truant officers: One day, walking along the sidewalk at 10:00 a.m.

9

Many many years ago, my mother-in-law was confronted by a truant officer.

10

Few teachers are going to call the truant police on a high-school aged student who leaves during the day, even though technically they could.

11

But if you do, and you -allow- your kid to be truant or become a criminal, etc., you should be punished and held personally liable.

12

The only difference was a few rules such as you could be late to class or truant and you could leave campus whenever you wanted to.

Quote examples

1

That's great, but that's not why these stats have gone up so much, and while that is technically "truant" in Germany, it's not in the US.

2

Whenever Mike Dwayne would skip out, the police department's truant office would call my father at work, who then had to take leave from his important work of fighting the cold war then ride his motorcycle twenty miles - sometimes in the driving rain - then visit the principal, all to say "This is not my son".

Proper noun examples

1

But Slaking doesn't get that for free-- it has an ability (Truant) that means it can only use moves every other turn.

2

In elementary school in Texas I was home schooled and there were a number of times that Police/Truant Officers showed up to try to take us to school.

3

The overall vibe I got was reading Jonny Truant’s passages in House of Leaves where he dives deeper into the work of the late Zampano and essentially forms a bond with him through that.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use truant in a sentence?

I think the truant officers ignored me for two reasons: because I didn't look like a truant, and because I lived near a college campus.

What does truant mean?

An idle or lazy person; an idler.

What part of speech is truant?

truant is commonly used as noun, adjective.