How To Use Take leave In A Sentence
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This has serious repercussions for a largely immigrant workforce who may have to take leave to visit family abroad.
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By and by he went away, forgetting to take leave of me, my back being turned, looking upon the aviary, which is there very pretty, and the birds begin to sing well this spring.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S.
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But a taste of cubanelle, a poblano chili stuffed with cheese, caponata, and peppers, will help you take leave all over again.
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Austrian minister, is recalled precipitately, with orders not to take leave. our papers joined Pucci (796) with him in this recall, but I do not find with any foundation.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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By the light of this sun I was, in my own opinion, last to behold and take leave of some of those creatures on whom I doted with a mother-like fondness, guided by nature and passion, and uncured and unhardened by all the doctrine of that philosophical school where I had learned to bear pains and to despise death.
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir Bawty.'
Waverley
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir
Waverley — Volume 2
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Sister dearest, Jaun delivered himself with express cordia-lity, marked by clearance of diction and general delivery, as he began to take leave of his scolastica at once so as to gain time with deep affection, we honestly believe you sorely will miss us the moment we exit yet we feel as a martyr to the dischurch of all duty that it is about time, by Great Harry, we would shove off to stray on our long last journey and not be the load on ye.
Finnegans Wake
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I can nowise explain what sort of whim, prank, or perversity it was, that, after all these leave-takings, induced me to go to the pig-stye and take leave of the swine!
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It literally makes us take leave of our senses and behave in ways we normally would not.
Times, Sunday Times
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We support his decision to take leave to do that and we anticipate him returning as leader in early February in time for the next sitting period.
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Full-time officers of research may take leaves of absence according to the policies described below.
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Under red alert, police personnel would not be permitted to take leave or go out of the city.
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I take leave to differ from you.
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Many have been told by their doctors to take leave to protect their health and would step down from the job if they could keep their allowances and pension entitlements.
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir Bawty.'
Waverley
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'I have gone to the Greek for it; and there the word rendered "forsake" is one that means to "take leave of" -- "bid farewell.
A Red Wallflower
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Further, some may argue that annual leave provides a sufficient number of days for fathers to take leave to care for their children.
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir
Waverley — Volume 2
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A newly married wife or husband can take leave from work to care for a spouse, or sue for a partner's wrongful death.
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All the Branghtons called to take leave of me; but I will not write a word more about them: indeed I cannot, with any patience, think of that family, to whose forwardness and impertinence is owing all the uneasiness I at this moment suffer!
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir Bawty,'
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered.
Underworld
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir Bawty,'
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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We have to take leave of the idea of status quo; the orchestras, conductors and soloists will have to become more flexible and less demanding financially.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well might Egbert be proud of his librarian: the first, I believe upon record, who has composed a catalogue [234] of books in Latin hexameter verse: and full reluctantly, I ween, did this librarian take leave of his _Cell_ stored with the choicest volumes -- as we may judge from his pathetic address to it, on quitting England for France!
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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'demoniac' manner of contemporary tragedians, I take leave to think that no player has been more worthy to wear the _canons_ of M.scarille or the gown of Vadius than M. Coquelin of the Comédie Francaise.
Letters to Dead Authors
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The person fronts up and says: ‘I have to take leave for a tangi.’
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He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered.
Underworld
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The fish that had prompted me to take leave of my senses is an evil-tempered, prehistoric critter that lives only in certain big, cold, fast rivers in Mongolia and Siberia, most of which flow into the Arctic Ocean.
Bill Heavey Chases Mongolian Taimen (with Prairie Dogs as Bait)