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UK
/ˈeɪwɒl/
]
[ US /ˈeɪˌwɔɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈeɪˌwɔɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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absent without permission
truant schoolboys
the soldier was AWOL for almost a week
How To Use awol In A Sentence
- Note that all my sources for what follows come from US military sources, not the peace movement. • 25\% of US soldiers participated in "dissidence," (expressing opposition to the war), and 25\% participated in "disobedience" (refusing orders, going AWOL, sabotage, attacking officers). 37\% of all soldiers participated in one of the two, and 32\% did so more than once. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- Going on AWOL is definitely a official state matter. Business as usual for embattled South Carolina governor
- They both went AWOL from the Air Force, running off into the night to be together. Lost Boy | Her Bad Mother
- Unfortunately, going AWOL on the job and leaving the country while telling your staff you are out hiking is absolutely grounds for being fired, for pretty much any position. CNN Poll: Americans think Sanford should resign
- Madame Severnou, whose ear had been closer to the ground than Awolowo's on his pillow, had disappeared. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
- the soldier was AWOL for almost a week
- One of the awol elements is the first film's sense of breezy, light-hearted fun.
- It was a cold November night in Hawolgok-dong and I buttoned my coat against a bitter wind announcing the onset of winter.
- He thinks of being AWOL, and likes the idea of the label beside his name, the sense it gives of who he is. GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT
- Had the AWOL Bush and the 5 time draft dodger Cheney not acted from the "gut" but been more deliberative, 4500 young Americans may still be alive, not to mention all the ones maimed. Axelrod slams Romney