leave-taking

How To Use leave-taking In A Sentence

• If this leave-taking is difficult, complex and conflict-filled for most young adults, it is doubly so for adoptees.
• One of the hallmarks of apraxia is the relative preservation of automatic or over learned speech sequences such as greetings, leave-takings and proverbs.
• Yet he cannot resist a fond leave-taking, reflecting that the journey we have been on with him has been toilsome, but sacred. The Times Literary Supplement
• Young Dick learned death — ­not the ordered, decent death of civilization, wherein doctors and nurses and hypodermics ease the stricken one into the darkness, and ceremony and function and flowers and undertaking institutions conspire to give a happy leave-taking and send-off to the departing shade, but sudden death, primitive death, ugly and ungarnished, like the death of a steer in the shambles or a fat swine stuck in the jugular. CHAPTER V
• You have to be prepared to let them experience the consequences of their disorganization, if your family's truly going to get its act together where leave-takings are concerned.
• I regret to say that this young nobleman ended his leave-taking by introducing a pretty woman, with very neat hands and ankles and a most mutine physiognomy, as his sister, informing me that she was also my wife pro temp. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• It surprised him how difficult this leave-taking proved to be. The Broken God
• The information traffic displayed was enough to render the Invid leave-taking a minor itch.
• While it is normative for women to take time off from work to care for family needs, men's leave-taking may be more scrutinized by employers as a violation of gendered expectations in the workplace, and they suffer larger wage penalties as a result.
• In your new book, you focus on what you call ‘leave-takings ‘- moments that are among the most powerful in our lives - and about how meditation can help us prepare for these.’