Some Knicks even found ways to use Ewing's absence in a positive way.

No one in Utah used Stockton's absence as an excuse.

Therefore, he won't use their absence as an excuse.

He had used The Shadow's absence to destroy the dictograph connection.

Your competition will use your absence to their advantage.

In isolation they broke him, and they used my absence as part of that process.

But the Knicks used Robinson's absence to make up ground.

If Oakley does not return, he said, the team will not be able to use his absence as an excuse.

I used his temporary absence to reign in my lustful fantasies and focus on why I'd called him.

He always was, now, ever since Volemak had used his absence as an opportunity to give the oath.