How To Use Day off In A Sentence

He was not at the count as he was unable to take a day off work but delighted supporters phoned to let him know the result.
The Cameo cinema in Edinburgh has just announced an Eighties all-nighter, featuring saccharine delights such as Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Great Britain finalised their preparations at Salford and will have today off in readiness for tomorrow's sell-out clash.
The demonstrators were mostly schoolchildren given the day off, army conscripts and public employees encouraged to go on the march in their working hours. Times, Sunday Times
In the meantime, down the road in Piraeus where Melina Mercouri was filmed in 1960 singing a song about her sacred day off from work called Never On A Sunday, the Chinese last June took over full control of the major container dock, pledging to spend $700 million to construct a new pier and upgrade existing docks. Vanessa Andris: Greece: Never on a Sunday But Bail Us Out on Monday? Defeat or Development

She took a day off of classes to attend the event because she wants to help her mom, the current owner of Kchelly's Beauty Center in Irvington, N.J. "She's thinking of handing [the business] to me," explains Ms. Darden, who is currently a manager at the salon and beauty-supply store. Need Advice? We'll Give You 30 Minutes
The idea of taking a day off seemed impractical at the time. Christianity Today
Making camp in the Mulga we drew water from the Bore for showers & washing, settling in for a well deserved day off.
Passi was on a three-day official visit to Denmark at the invitation of his colleague Moeller.
We were all promised blizzards and arctic blasts today, and I dare say everyone was looking forward to being snowed in and enjoying a day off work snuggled up in front of the telly.
More than two million pupils were jubilant at getting the day off to enjoy the winter wonderland. The Sun
Vera Duckworth, alias Leeds-born Liz Dawn, booked a day off from serving chips at Roy's Rolls to become Peggy Lee.
Yesterday was a day off for everybody, with the exception of Lawrence.
Fischer, who doubles as German vice chancellor, is in Japan on a two-day official visit from Monday.
Hopefully, all the little ones and not so little, enjoyed their day off school and work due to the downfall of snow, last week.
Let's take a day off from the campaign trail, break bread the Thanksgiving table.
I'll have to ask my boss for a day off.
He took the day off, not unreasonably claiming that he needed the time to re-cover from all the travel. WITHOUT REMORSE
At the Monday office business meeting, you asked for a collection of opinions about the new appraisal system by the various departments, all to be completed within one week.
There are those of us who like nothing better than to start the day off with a piece of cherry pie and whipped cream.
With only one day off in a week working people had barely enough time to arrange the household.
Thursday is his day off
High Schools of the day offered some pretty good metal working programs in classrooms outfitted with lathes, milling machines and shapers.
Since they had never yet arranged to have the same day or half-day off, this meant that Malik and Abdul were never alone together. The Empty Family
To my shock and horror I may have to actually act on that as I've found a college in easy walking distance is actually offering classes which I can easily afford and they'll be on my day off as well.
The venomous exchanges between deputies from the two republics in the Kremlin yesterday offered little hope that reason would prevail.
That is why a vacation or day off from work spent doing the same activity as one's usual work is called a busman's holiday. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
We are available to holiday off-peak, in termtime, all year round. Times, Sunday Times
Ninety-Nine Islands aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaA day off in Sasebo, Japan. aaaaaaaaaaI’m down the gangway and gone. October « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Police today offered advice on how van owners can make themselves less vulnerable to the gang.
This was all done with a very snotty cold and tight chesty cough, the like of which would have made me take a day off were I working for someone other than myself.
I've woken up feeling thick-headed, and since I know what a sick building I work in, and since everyone else has had it before me, I'm taking the day off before the lurgy gets me.
Make-up artists and beauty consultants will be on hand throughout the day offering advise and tips on how to perfect your make-up and skincare regime.
A Liverpudlian housewife is freed from her humdrum existence when a Greek holiday offers her the chance to experience the good life. The Sun
I have a tame doctor who'll always give me a sick note when I want a day off.
So perhaps next year I'll catch a latish flight on Monday, so I can stay as long as SignOut, then take Tuesday off work. Post-Wiscon.. except not
His half day off was invariably spent tinkering about the stuffy little flat -- painting, nailing up shelves, mending a broken window shade, puttying a window, playing with his pasty little boy, aged sixteen months, and his pasty little girl, aged three years. Gigolo
So, like the brave little bunny I am, I took the day off and have mainly spent it vegetating and feeling sick.
As a special envoy for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Tang Jiaxuan arrived in Pyongyang at noon July 12, kicking off his two-day official good-will visit to the DPRK.
There's nothing like the sweet sounds of an electric guitar to start the day off well, though for some reason my neighbours disagree.
I don't mind disclosing to you that I've had a really miserable weekend for one reason or another - I've got Monday off work, but frankly I'd rather be at work than hanging around here moping around.
Wise use of the day off is one of the easiest ways to acquire a quantity of time sufficient for quality moments. Christianity Today
Kym kicked 2 goals and his team won the game but his real excuse to take the day off on Monday arrived at 3.30 that morning.
After almost 30 years of working six days a week, Otley pork butchers David and Barbara Brown are looking forward to a day off.
On that day a twenty-three-year-old journeyman printer named Benjamin Day offered New Yorkers a paper called the Sun.
And finally, to top my day off, I found out that the joyless, universally disliked boss who's been off on maternity leave will be part time when she comes back at the end of April.
The President was leaving for a four-day official tour of Mexico.
I've got four classes this semester, with Monday and Wednesday off and a skippable class on Tuesday.
Last Sunday off Evans Head, nearly every boat returning to port had a nice catch of fish - snapper, teraglin, flathead and jewfish.
USA Today said Wednesday officials described the lightly armored vehicle as a "deathtrap" even when retrofitted with a mine-resistant kit developed in the mid-1990s. Latest News - UPI.com
`Perhaps they'll put the holiday off for another week," suggested Alicia Leonard, the editress of the school magazine. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
We jointly hosted an informal Sunday lunch for a distinguished group of actors on their day off.
Gail ordered Mexican tiles for the stove backsplash, and Bill took a day off from work to help her set them.
Now 'supermum' Irene, - who has six grandchildren of her own - will take a day off from caring for her three present foster children to travel to London with Roy on July 5th.
Technology today offers savvy business executives increasingly intelligent ways of cutting costs and automating business processes.
Taking the day off isn't an option - it's pay day, and how bad would it look if I created myself a 4 day weekend?
She asked her boss whether she could have the day off.
Despite the harsh conditions they never take a day off, working seven days a week in any weather.
And Rose is desperately appealing to all registrars to skip their day off and allow the couple, who have been together for six years, to get married.
So they play pool, swim and sunbathe and have a game of golf on their day off.
The package store owners like them because they get a day off with people more or less still buying the same boose. Three felonies a day?!
Save your breath; the boss will never give you the day off.
Katerina sat in the middle of her room, on the bed to be exact, shuffling through old photographs of Mitzy and Renee, who had taken the day off to go shopping.
A recent survey, published by the daily Le Parisien, showed that two-thirds of French people were against giving up their Whit Monday day off.
I bet that 99% of all the idiots who read that headline and tutted and shook their heads would not work gratis on their day off. The Truth Behind The £100 Phonecalls « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
They appoint precinct election judges and other election - day officials.
No, that was Gina's birthday, Wednesday then, he had the next day off. THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
And fairly often, during the winter, we'd be snowed in, which meant a day off school and the chance to hook up with the children that lived nearby to go sledging.
If we're carrying two extra middle infielders, and Espinosa can go over and play short if Desi needed a day off, that second middle infielder is just probably never going to play. Adam Kennedy's rough season and Jim Riggleman's regret
It was also the day when indentured servants were given the day off to celebrate with their families.
you could always take a day off
Ampleforth College has today offered free boarding to all day pupils during the present phase of the foot and mouth disease outbreak.
It felt like the set of a gangster movie on a day off. Times, Sunday Times
Neither is particularly appealing, although as the day officially begins at ten I guess the latter is more sensible.
I had Tuesday off of work and decided to have a lounge about.
Paul Hanagan got his Derby day off to a winning start as he rode Vintage Premium to victory.
Day off on Thursday, too busy to write yesterday. Soz.
The idea of taking a day off seemed impractical at the time. Christianity Today
The demonstrators were mostly schoolchildren given the day off, army conscripts and public employees encouraged to go on the march in their working hours. Times, Sunday Times
When the rush was over, he insisted that everybody take a day off.
Bianca gets every day except Tuesday off coz she's doing her IT subjects via distance. boo!
An embarrassed Keith, 35, had to take a day off work yesterday to get the blue barnet shaved off at his local barbers near his home in Wigan and had to wear a hat to avoid any further blushes.
HAMBURG - One crew member on a German oil tanker was shot to death in a pirate attack Tuesday off the coast of Benin, German broadcaster NDR reported, citing the Cancale Star's Hamburg shipping company. Www.kyivpost.com
I don't know what you're like when you haven't had a day off in three weeks but I get a bit woolly headed and unable to commit to basic chores.
Making it an official day off salved my conscience a little.
A rostered day off is a well earned day off as most would know.
She unconsciously marked each day off on her desk calendar in her office.
They were rescued yesterday off the coast of Ireland.
The Japanese say you should cook food in a state of Zen-like equilibrium, giving any bad-tempered chefs the day off because the mood will communicate to the dish being prepared.
He has every third day off .
In some jobs, and this is one of them, there is no such thing as a day off, or a night off, or a holiday without interruption.
If they put in their required weekly practice time, he would reward them by letting them take a day off school to go on a family ski trip.
Every weekday Games Today offers viewers two opportunities to catch up with best of the day's action featuring highlights of the main events, as well as news and views from top studio guests.
Orange's recent alliance, with soho-based advertising company Film Club, created a bespoke iPhone commercial around the Orange Wednesday offering, further demonstrates a clear knowledge of user interest and preference. The Holy Grail of Marketing
Well, it is Thanksgiving Day here in Canada and as such, we have the day off!
I take the odd day off work.
On the menu this week: another day of the personal effectivity training tomorrow, and then some D&D to finish the day off. Weekly
It exploits the good intentions and generosity of Church members whose Sunday offerings are used in this selfish and disproportionate way.
My money's on the Thursday offering, herb-roasted pork tenderloin, yams and pan-fried cabbage.
On your day off you don't need to be completely sedentary.
Starting the day off well is a powerful strategy for self-renewal and personal effectiveness.
Youngsters had a great time sledging down a slope at Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham on a bonus day off school.
A sudden gleam came into her eye as she remembered that tomorrow was her day off.
Movement (MPLA) that won the September elections UNITA called fradulent, on Wednesday offered Savimbi five portfolios in a new government. ANC Daily News Briefing
Later, the father's attorney sends the doctor a subpoena duces tecum requiring the physician to appear at a deposition with the records, or to send the records with an affidavit if he doesn't care to take the day off uncompensated.
The only reason I can write this tonight, is because we finally have a day off tomorrow.
Wise use of the day off is one of the easiest ways to acquire a quantity of time sufficient for quality moments. Christianity Today
Persuading him to give us the day off won't be a piece of cake.
Yesterday was a day off for everybody, with the exception of Lawrence.
A quick review of timecards found women working over 315 hours in a month and 20 consecutive days without a day off.
With only one day off in a week working people had barely enough time to arrange the household.
Usually on a day off, I get leathered.
One of our soldiers gets killed because we have "micromanaged" our soldiers to the point of being a target for every bad guy who wants to take a day off and kill a westerner. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
I had the day off work on Friday, so I went round to Fay's and received some unexpected news.
So let's just take the day off and go sledging. Times, Sunday Times
Then I could have enjoyed a day off without the streaming nose rubbed raw, the aches and pains, the weak shaky shivery feelings…
I guess it's the spammers' day off work, so they get to run their automated mail bots to send things out.
To them it was a joke, some prank and they treated it like a day off.
When I asked what she was doing, she said something in her thick Polish accent, something about a graft, something about a taproot, something about how gardening was how she liked to spend her day off. The Boy from Thuringia
So from waking up and starting the day off with foul expletives, my mood has changed to one of relative happiness.
The boyfriend and I had a day off yesterday and went on a jolly round the Thames like tourists.
Most of the nationalised and private banks today offer flexible repayment schedules for purchase of pre-owned cars.
Her family work as daily labourers and a day off can wreak havoc for the family's economy.
The President was leaving for a four-day official tour of Mexico.
Lord Sugar says today you can all have a lie-in, make that a day off in fact? TV review: The Apprentice and The Sounds of Hugh Laurie
It is not a day off for farmers and stockmen, any more than Christmas Day.
Today was her day off from her relentless study as a graduate student at the conservatoire.
Yesterday offered a perfect illustration why. Times, Sunday Times
Guinness was moving against the market trend, ending the day off 12 at 576p.
Police today offered advice on how van owners can make themselves less vulnerable to the gang.
Emily Maltby Michelle Darden, seen here, is a student at Seton Hall University and she took a day off of classes to attend the event because she wants to help her mom, the current owner of Kchelly's Beauty Center in Irvington, N.J. "The business is growing, but slowly," she explains. Need Advice? We'll Give You 30 Minutes
It was Mrs Dearden's day off, and Paul was on duty in her place.
While still in my first five weeks tutorship, my tutor took a day off. Homo Electric « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Thursday is payday, Friday is escape, Saturday offers brief bacchanalia and Sunday is for rest and regrets.
Stupid person can't let me have a friggin day off, interogating me about why I didn't have any work, and then calling me stupid for not bringing my books on a bludge day. Blu94anjel Diary Entry
Most of the squad and some ex-players took advantage of a rare Sunday off to go on veteran prop Andy Precious' stag weekend in the East Midlands city.
He took a day off to get thoroughly worked up in, came home that night full to the chin of indignation and Dunedin beer, and tried to kick Steelman out.
That live broadcast pre-empted Seven's Sunday Sunrise, giving Michael Pascoe a day off.
The musicians seem to have set their instruments on autopilot and taken the day off.
The verse of the quote is 2:28, this is used as proof that Nostradamus knew she would be killed on the 31st, despite the fact the number is one day off, if 28 and 2 are added together that's only 30.
The Nationals bulwarked his effort with a breakout offensive night, led by Dunn's monstrous two-run home run in the second inning and capped when Ian Desmond - who had struck out four times Monday night and then refused a day off Tuesday - blasted a solo shot in the ninth. Livan Hernandez powers Washington Nationals past Atlanta Braves, 6-0
In OD&D/Swords&Wizardry it’s roll stats pick race/class let’s pick MU record alignment record spells per day off of MU table roll hitpoints 9 (d6-1) + 5 btw record save (in OD&D this is table so no need to record) How Much Does Character Optimization Count? « Geek Related
An absent-minded businessman who left a bag containing £10,000 on the roof of his car yesterday offered a £1,000 reward for its return.
You're good company in the right mood, so maybe taking a day off to unwind would be your best option here. The Sun
It was Mrs Dearden's day off, and Paul was on duty in her place.
Tonight there is writing group for which I've written nada, and tomorrow and Wednesday I plan to hide from the world and get a decent amount of writing done so I can take Thursday and Friday off guilt-free.
In the last month, three of my close friends accomplished some amazing feats: my J-School classmate completed the Chicago marathon, my coworker climbed Mount Whitney on his day off and The Good Badger just finished a thruhike of the Appalachian Trail. Josh Burstein: An Ill-Considered And Heroic Climb Up Mount Olympus
I can't remember his taking a single day off work.
The Royal Bank of Scotland today offered a £15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the two robbers.
The crew is on duty for three 24-hour shifts (coming on duty at 1pm) with a day off in between each and then four days off.
So my day off wasn't all that restful -- I completely screwed up and didn't realise my car rego hadn't arrived and for 2 days drove with it out of rego because my brain thought the rego wasn't due till December. This'n'that
Actually, many of the top names today offer bagless vacuums.
The Icelandic container ship Godafoss, which ran aground Thursday off the coast of Fredrikstad in southern Norway and began leaking oil, has been pulled off the ground, authorities said. World Watch
I can't remember his taking a single day off work.
Balding's idea of a day off from the stables was a point-to-point meeting. Times, Sunday Times
But the youngsters who zoom on their bikes curving along the hairpin bends have to take a day off.
The employees in question worked at only one factory, but accommodating the extra day off was a legitimate part of the payroll system for the whole company.
The 'honestest' playing in all the world; not the political game, not the money game, not anything called manly sport, just a day off with my boys, being a boy again. Michael O'Halloran
Unlike some people I know who simply spent the day off mallhopping, I was cajoled into going to school to help out my mom for five hours.
Even so, I couldn't face my woolie sweater in progress, so I distracted myself by going vintage shopping on my day off. Green apples - a knitting blog
I'll have to ask my boss for a day off.
Mariners manager Eric Wedge gave Justin Smoak a mini-break by using him as the DH, with a day off on the schedule coming on Thursday. The Seattle Times
He had been on a day off when he was shot dead yesterday afternoon (Thursday).
I'll ask my boss if I can have the day off.
He went on to say the people who took the day off to express their opposition to the war were solidly left and markedly anarchist and Marxist.
Vanity Fair magazine on Wednesday offered what it called a "sneak peek" at its 72nd list of the year's style icons, with just the best-of women and men. Thestar.com - Home Page
However, the fourth Sunday of Lent was hailed as a day for honouring mothers, when servants would have the day off and be encouraged to return home.
So let's just take the day off and go sledging. Times, Sunday Times
She asked her boss whether she could have the day off.
There had been fears that Friday's game would have hit the markets badly, with thousands taking a day off work and share prices taking a tumble, whatever the outcome.
The final straw was when he refused to drive one of their relatives to Heathrow on his day off, an industrial tribunal heard. The Sun
Review: Forgetting the fact that the "suitor" is actually the girl's cousin and that the girl is fifteen years old - because that whole thing's a little creepy - this hardly qualifies as a time travel story just because two captains travel around the world in opposite directions so that each is one calendar day off from local time. REVIEW: Time Machines edited by Bill Adler, Jr.
My ideal day off is one spent with a book, a bottle of water and a comfortable lounger somewhere in the sun.
We had time to get a Coast Guard mayday off, get out on the deck, unlash the rubber zodiac dinghy from the deck, and get off the boat. CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2006
Several labor organizations have grouped together to pledge to use their workers' rights to take the day off on the upcoming World Labor Day on May 1.
Or the hospital cafeteria-line serving woman sitting there on her day off with a cat fur around her neck, telling the proprietor she was a "dietitian" - both of them knowing she was lying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
With only one day off in a week working people had barely enough time to arrange the household.
But the caretaker who has to stoke six boilers each day, cart 12 puds of fuel, carry water on her shoulders so that staff can wash their hands, she receives 12 rubles, has no work clothes, no day off, and no holidays.
The trio was under the impression that they were untouchable and would beat the rap and began to transfer their assets to relatives' modern-day off-shore accounts.
That live broadcast pre-empted Seven's Sunday Sunrise, giving Michael Pascoe a day off.
To blow off steam, he gave us the next day off, and we went bass fishing.
Nearly 3,000 pupils were given the day off on Friday after arctic conditions forced some west Wiltshire schools to close.
Today official figures are likely to show that Britain has now notched up two years of continuous economic growth. Times, Sunday Times
Tomorrow will be my first proper day off for a fortnight and I feel utterly worn out.
Students at Mt Nelson Primary School were given the day off after a tree fell across powerlines and cut electricity to the school.
And, while an unpaid day off each week creates a financial squeeze for workers, these privations are minor compared to the economic hardship and emotional devastation wrought by layoffs.
Anderson Cooper is sitting in for bill hemmer who has a day off. CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2004
For those of us who weren't there during Motown's Detroit peak, when the label blossomed into one of the world's top music factories, Thursday offered a taste of what must have been. Freep.com - RSS
An absent-minded businessman who left a bag containing £10,000 on the roof of his car yesterday offered a £1,000 reward for its return.
She found the other students' insistence that she shower every day offensive.
I took Friday off, and spent a long weekend visiting friends.
I have to spend my precious day off in front of a PC doing nothing but geeky stuff all day long.
Tuesday's day off started inauspiciously , with Yahoo Sports reporting talks between the Cavaliers and Heat that would have had Marion going to Cleveland for Anderson Varejao and Wally Szczerbiak.
Then if I have a day off sick I see them sitting on the front porch yarning, having a beer - or two or three - and later on playing cricket with the kids in the back yard.
I'll have to ask my boss for a day off.
The 28-year-old from Thembalihle works seven days a week as a ranch hand on a 370-acre cattle and sheep farm, getting a day off every other week.
While some managers of vanquished teams have given their players a break, Gray has sentenced his men to hard labour and they will not have a day off until Friday.
I have a tame doctor who'll always give me a sick note when I want a day off.
Saturday offers a double-header of extreme rarities. A Cinematic Diet Loaded With Preservatives
Students were given the day off so teachers from across the Mid West could refresh and improve their skills.

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