5492 examples of missed in sentences

Her eyes, always narrowed until the lashes shielded their sharp watchfulness, seldom missed observing anything of importance.

When he stopped sobbing he tried to kill me for hindering his destruction, but I had got the razor in my pocket, and his revolver missed fire.

Ramsden, you've suddenly missed your letter.

Jeremy made a grab for his foot, but missed it, an

He fell as if pole-axed and the blade missed my stomach by six inches, but the combined force of thrust and blow was great enough to drive the weapon into the wooden partition, where it stayed until I pulled it out to keep as a souvenir.

He took careful aim at me with a revolver, fired point-blank, and missed.

"Point number one," he interrupted quietly, "utterly missed by the police.

And that is why she missed her appointment with Mr. Richard Frobisher (of the London Mail) to go and see Maud Allan dance at the Palace Theatre that afternoon.

He missed, however, the comforts of society and amusement which he had experienced at Naples.

But the light of morning no sooner appeared in the mosque, than the official to whose charge the palladium had been committed missed it from its place, and in vain searched every other to find it.

He missed entirely the deep indentation of Baumann Gulf and the southwestern prolongation of the lake, surveyed by Father Schynse, in 1891.

And truly, how the time passed, I know not; but there came presently a hullabaloo, and the shouts of men's voices and the baying of dogs, and the gleam of lanthorns, so that I knew not what to think; until, very sudden, and with a sweet and strange little laughter, the Lady Mirdath to perceive that we had missed the hours utter in our converse; so that her Guardian (made uneasy because of the three foot-pads) had ordered a search.

and I fear me, many) have I missed to set out with particularness: There was, as you do know, all around the base of the Pyramid, which was five and one-quarter miles every way, a great circle of light, which was set up by the Earth-Current, and burned within a transparent tube; or had that appearance.

The travellers learned that they had missed the connection on which they had counted and that they could not reach Trehenna till nearly ten o'clock.

If I went to church, it was because I missed something, and I went there to seek it.

And here he fell speedily discoursing of Moll, saying he could not sleep of nights for thinking of the pranks she used to play us, our merry vagabond life together in Spain ere we got to Elche, etc., and how he missed her now more than ever he did before.

Already! CHANTECLER In short, the pheasant your master missed BRIFFAUT Was a she![He stops and scents the air.]

The statues in the room should not be missed, particularly the little Genius of Love, the Bacchus and Ampelos, and the spoilt little comely boy supposed to representand quite conceivablythe infant Nero.

"We all missed you very much," said Kate, softly.

I heard the loud click of his teeth as he snappedand missed.

Allen, St. Eustace's right half-back, had plunged over the line for a touch-down at the end of fifteen minutes of play and Terrill had missed an easy goal.

No, missed him, by Jove!

The run was over, and Christie lay panting on the ground, with the triumphant St. Eustace half-back sitting serenely on his head; for, although the latter had missed his tackle, Christie had slipped in avoiding him.

It was missed in the morning, and he being absent, was of course suspected.

He made the attempt, but the gun missed fire, and Mince fled.

5492 examples of  missed  in sentences