Sentence examples for were miss from inspiring English sources

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were miss

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To fail to hit.

  • I missed the target.

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Other key titles in the period were Miss Carter's War by Sheila Hancock and Not Quite Nice by Celia Imrie.

The 18th century had a way of dealing with the issue of married and unmarried women: older ladies were Mrs., younger ladies were Miss.

By Charles N. Lurie The New Yorker, May 21 , 1927P. 13 Doorman at Franklin Simon's asked each young lady entering the store if she were Miss Gully.

To many blacks, they were "Miss Anne," dismissive slang for a privileged white woman who gets away with "doin' something no one can" (as Little Richard once put it in a song).

If there were not Miss Rheingolds from sea to shining sea - Rheingold was a New York brand, and its expansion to California in the 1960s doomed a brewing company that once had roughly 35 percent of the market - there were Miss Rheingolds from World's Fair to World's Fair.

By the time they were, Miss Potter's career in fiction writing was beginning to hit its stride with The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Two Bad Mice joining her most famous work, The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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These were missed opportunities.

There were missed calls.

Hundreds more were missing.

Volunteer firefighters were missing.

Two Justices were missing.

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