A leave usually taken every seventh year

Usage examples of sabbatical.

His thoughts during this brief sabbatical return to one image: that man, ready to disappear without issue, whether or not his choice of companion in this life chooses to accompany him in exile.

Torah commands that a sabbatical year be observed every seven years in Israel, during which time all agriculture should be suspended and the land be allowed to lie fallow.

Four years back, when Henry was on sabbatical at the National Institutes of Health, he was studying autism, and he wanted to know which genes might account for the difference in communication abilities between people and apes.

Blake is a professor using his sabbatical for meandering through the countryside and putting on the magic shows he finds such fun to do, all out of his pink touring bus!

Anderson, an expert in superconductivity and solid-state physics, was visiting Cambridge for the year while on sabbatical from his position at Bell Laboratories.

Sabbath afternoon, workless, the cotton and corn growing unvexed now, the mules themselves Sabbatical and idle in the pastures, the people still in their Sunday clothes on galleries and in shady yards with glasses of lemonade or saucers of the ice cream left from dinner.

Before Mulla and Landau snatched me out of my, um, sabbatical, I was doing some research into the history of mazes and labyrinths.

He had kindled her fancy with those notions of a Sabbatical year and a Silver Wedding Journey, and when she was willing to renounce both he had persisted in taking her to see the ship, only to tell her afterwards that he would not go abroad on any account.

She has been away on a sabbatical for many years and is spending this time with us now until she can be reunited with them.

He teaches in the chemistry department but is on a semester sabbatical in France.

She was connected with some religiolesbic movement there and she had neglected to send a circular letter about her sabbatical.

I have a sabbatical next year, and the money you've generously paid me will allow me to devote the entire year to studying the Hieroglyphic Stairway in the Mayan ruins at Copan in Honduras.

Shelling, a gravitational physicist on a sabbatical from Rockwell International, headed up a mathematical group which had been delving into Ganymean field equations and energy-metric transforms for six months.

I know this comes as a shock to you, but not everyone is a neophiliac posthuman bodysurfer whose idea of a sabbatical is to spend twenty years as a flock of tightly networked seagulls in order to try and to prove the Turing Oracle thesis –"

It's probably a lucky break that I chose my sabbatical leave when I did.