5492 examples of missing in sentences

Yet they supplied the detail that was missing.

The ship, missing the steadying power of the wind, rolled heavily in the troughs of the seas, which, however began to be more diminutive, at each instant, as though the startled element was recalling, into the security of its own vast bosom, that portion of its particles which had, just before, been permitted to gambol so madly over its surface.

The modern village, built of some of the missing stones, is partly within the circular earthwork.

" Kent opened the door, entirely missing the point of the sarcasm in his heat.

Over in the high log stockade wherein the Company's sledge animals were confined, other wolf-dogs howled mournfully, desolated at missing the fun.

Sometimes these beloved creations of genius performed rather curious gymnastics on being placed in the boiling greasesuch as twisting on one side, throwing a limb entirely over their heads, &c.; while not unfrequently a leg or an arm was found missing when boiled to the requisite degree of hardness.

Georgiana was singing, so low that I was making no noise with my rake in order to hear; and when he began, before I realized what I was doing, I had seized a brickbat and hurled it, barely missing him, and driving him away.

Bowers himself was covered with blood and supplied the missing linkthe cause of the incident.

This he strongly denied; as the older feeling went, nothing, he said, had taken its place, or would take its place, but a naked and restless individualism, always seeking for personal satisfaction, and always missing it.

But he must keep up with thingshe was missing points.

"I don't know, John," she replied, "he's always missing appointments nowadays," and there was a pathetic droop about the childish mouth.

You'd better see if anything is missing as she's not an inhabitant!' "'Nothere won't be anything missing,' he replied.

You'd better see if anything is missing as she's not an inhabitant!' "'Nothere won't be anything missing,' he replied.

In the social groups of the cafe the captains would sometimes relate their encounters on the sea, the unexpected appearance of a submarine, the torpedo missing aim a few yards away, the flight at full speed while being shelled by their pursuers.

He had Anne's unhappy way with destiny, her knack of missing things.

She surreptitiously possessed herself of a minute fraction of my heart, which has been missing ever since I saw her.

It is quite in keeping with the character of this body and its officers to find the journal of its proceedings for the last days missing.

Leavitt as a source of information regarding the missing Farquharson seemed preposterous when one reflected how out of touch with the world he had been, but, to my astonishment, Major Stanleigh's clue was right, for he had at last stumbled upon a man who had known Farquharson well and who was voluminous about himquite willingly so.

The Holmes boy was fatally shot by a rattleheaded searcher near Five-Mile Pond, and distraught parents began to take thought of their own lads missing from school.

WOLVERTON, ETHEL T. That missing deed.

The man who was missing.

(Missing woman series, vol.

M. I find the missing.

Mr. Westerby missing.

One Winter, with a knife, attempted to cut him in the throat, but missing his aim, the captain was yet saved.

5492 examples of  missing  in sentences