Sentence examples for Missing from inspiring English sources
'Missing' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when referring to a person or thing that is absent or lost. For example: "My car keys have been missing since yesterday."
verb
Present participle of miss
But something is missing.
The pupil premium is great, but not much help if you are being evicted because of the bedroom tax, or living in a substandard or unsafe home, or missing out on a good breakfast.
Back home, his wife, Mary, given the news that Tom was missing, presumed wounded, refused to accept the inevitable.
But Smith's failure to make a major impact in Europe - the finest moment probably being the home-and-away defeat of Leeds United in 1992, later missing out on a Champions League final place by one point - led to the clamour for something new.
Swedish politician Kristina Axén Olin said then: "As a Stockholmer, this is what you have been missing".
Among the puzzles vexing investigators are how a man who had lost almost seven pints of blood could have made his way 70-odd miles across country - and what happened to him in the at least three days that he was missing.
Constantly checking my phone not only makes me bad company (sorry friends), but it makes me worry that there's something I'm missing or something I've failed to cover in one of my stories.
But there is one thing missing: "I would like to get to the point where we have a tour bus.
Each has his merits, and could earn a place in the squad, but with limited spots available there is a good chance of them all missing out.
