[ US /ˈmɪsɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not able to be found
    a missing person
    missing in action
  2. nonexistent
    the thumb is absent
    her appetite was lacking
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How To Use missing In A Sentence

  • But for the watermark, the thickness of the paper and the missing security thread, the note, reportedly obtained from a private bank, looked like genuine currency for all practical purposes.
  • Having a couple of chances and that luck is missing for me now. The Sun
  • Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
  • To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
  • He vented his frustration a couple of games into the second set, missing a volley and then belting the ball into the crowd.
  • FEARS were growing for a missing schoolgirl after police found her phone dumped in a park. The Sun
  • All he was missing was the goals. The Sun
  • Sterling was darting around, looking for pockets of space, but missing a glorious chance from close range. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is something missing in my jewelry box!
  • With three players cup-tied, one suspended and another released this month, there will be four familiar names missing, and some unfamiliar ones on the bench.
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