Sentence examples for he was missing in action from inspiring English sources

For a start, he was missing in action.

He was missing in action for two months and received a Purple Heart.

For months, his wife knew only that he was missing in action.

For the next 74 years — until this summer — he was missing in action, his body declared non-recoverable.

She said he was "missing in action" on the recent Senate vote on Iran and as chairman of a subcommittee responsible for NATO policy in Afghanistan.

On a recent Friday afternoon he was missing in action half an hour after a tour of the new HQ was scheduled to start--a not uncommon delay but a problematic one, since Abovitz comes from an Orthodox Jewish background and was planning to leave work early to observe the Sabbath.

As Doris, a barmaid who has married an ex-pat Polish officer, she switches from comic perky chatter to near-mute grief when he's missing in action.

He was missing-in-action for two months.

"It was some comfort for Dennis and Ione, treating Denise as if she were missing in action," he says.

During the war, he recalled, when his brother was missing in action for a while, and worse and worse news trickled in from Eastern Europe, "my house was a cemetery, with my mother pulling her hair, and my father staring at the floor".

When I asked NLGJA President David Steinberg, who works at the Chronicle, about why NLGJA was missing in action, he said no one saw a problem with the coverage of the Prop 8 battle -- including that front page story by his colleague.