shore leave

NOUN
  1. leave granted to a sailor or naval officer
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How To Use shore leave In A Sentence

  • Sailors in shore leave often spend money like water.
  • We don't want politicians chucking around our money like a sailor on shore leave. The Sun
  • This admittedly pretty series of waterfalls in a lush forest has been transformed into a death march for millions of cruise shippers on shore leave.
  • We don't want politicians chucking around our money like a sailor on shore leave. The Sun
  • He stood on the section of the deck behind the gangway, in that ill-defined area that was called the quarterdeck, along with the others going on shore leave, sunlight and shadows from the masts and rigging falling across them. Wellspring of Chaos
  • They ship did not dock long enough for the crew to get shore leave.
  • Seafarers shall be granted shore leave to benefit their health and well-being and with the operational requirements of their positions.
  • I seem to recall the abolishment of a certain low tax band too. if you bunch of lying cheating shysters hadn't spent the publics money like a bunch of drunken sailors on shore leave nobody would be putting up VAT in the first place. The Guardian World News
  • We don't want politicians chucking around our money like a sailor on shore leave. The Sun
  • A group of "spacers" (space workers who have been modified to be asexual) are on Earth for shore leave and looking cash in? thanks to the sexual perversions of the "frelks" (spacer-lovers). REVIEW: The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume III
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