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Sentences ending with missing

No breeze--the longed-for trades still missing. [5]
The Sellerses were to go to England with their new allies for a brief visit, but when it was time to take the train from Washington, the colonel was missing. [5]
Yesterday there were three pints of bread-crumbs; this morning the little bag is found open and some of the crumbs are missing. [5]
They all said they had not noticed whether Tom and Becky were on board the ferryboat on the homeward trip; it was dark; no one thought of inquiring if any one was missing. [5]
The watchers counted these specks eagerly--fourteen--nobody was missing. [5]
The ruins of the old bath were there yet in the basement of the monastery, not a stone missing. [5]
Forty-seven persons were scalded and seventeen are missing. [5]
So I took it out of its hiding-place and counted it to see if any of it was missing. [5]
To Andrew Lang, in London: [First page missing. [5]
He bravely bore his miseries three weeks, and then one day turned up missing. [5]

Short sentences using missing

None of the boats missing? [6]

Sentences containing missing two or more times

I was missing him; I am missing him yet, after all these months. [5]

More example sentences with the word missing in them

I believe 23,500 will cover all the killed, wounded, and missing in all your battles and skirmishes, leaving 50,000 who have left otherwise. [7]
Among the Spaniards who were missing as a result of this excursion was a soldier named Juan Ortiz. [4]
If you yourself were such a son, and your ear had not perfectly caught the parting counsels of the dying-how many talents of silver would you not pay to be able to supply the missing words? [10]
Only his sister was now missing, but they would know how to find her. [10]
She has the usual defect, the common defect, the universal defect, the defect that has never been missing from any ship that ever sailed--she has imperfect beds. [5]
His breeches had turned up missing, and without any equivalent. [5]
I cannot propose to her at present, but the thought that perhaps she might someday be my wife and that I may be missing that possibility... that possibility... is terrible. [2]
I ran tunnels till I tapped the Arctic Ocean, and I sunk shafts till I broke through the roof of perdition; but those extensions turned up missing every time. [5]
That trick of throwing a stone at a tree and attaching some mighty issue to hitting or missing, which you will find mentioned in one or more biographies, I well remember. [6]
I drove cityward through the rain, mechanically taking the familiar turns in the road, barely missing a man in a buggy at a four-corners. [9]
So skillfully was this managed that one of the city officials was on the point of offering a reward for the discovery of the missing Diedrich. [4]
The attacking party then retreated to a height of ground, to muster their men, and to count the number of missing and slain. [5]
At last, through the War Office, she had found the whereabouts of her missing Matthew. [11]
In spite of the vehement and indignant tones in which his lodger spoke, the senator remained perfectly calm, and presently went away to ask his wife whether she by chance, while he was asleep, had opened the house to the missing woman. [10]
I was allowing the umbrella to remain lost, but the men murmured, and with reason, for in this exposed region we stood in peculiar need of protection against avalanches; so I went into camp and detached a strong party to go after the missing article. [5]
By the time the travelers pulled up at a store in Bakersville they had lost all expectation of recovering the missing article, and were discussing the investment of more money in an advertisement in the weekly newspaper of the capital. [4]
Paradise Regained and the Second Part of Faust are examples which are enough to warn every one who has made a jingle fair hit with his arrow of the danger of missing when he looses "his fellow of the selfsame flight. [6]
He is across the river, for a boat is missing and where it had been lying the dogs began again. [10]
It is not the missing page. [5]
They supplied all the missing information themselves, they filled up all the blanks. [5]
And there was the lion, a-ripping around under me, and roaring and springing up in the air at the ladder, and only missing it about a quarter of an inch, it seemed to me. [5]
Evidently some of the letters were missing, for the name of the inquirer was not mentioned; there was a casual reference to "this handsome-featured aristocratic gentleman," as if the reader and the writer were accustomed to speak of him and knew who was meant. [5]
And at length the bark cast off again, amidst jeers and threats, and one-third of her crew missing, and drifted slowly back to the roads. [9]
For he knew that rustlers, being riders, would not make much of a day's or night's absence from camp for one or two of their number; but when the missing ones failed to show up in reasonable time there would be a search. [13]
He did not tarry in Hawkeye, but went on, thus missing several appointments with creditors. [5]
That evening at supper Fisher was missing, and so next morning some ineffectual search was made for him; and on Tuesday, at one o'clock P.M., William and Henry started home without him. [7]
And with these she delivered a list of 96 missing persons that had drowned or otherwise perished at the scene of the disaster. [5]
So now she sent her two heralds with a new letter warning the English to raise the siege and requiring them to restore that missing messenger. [5]
The Pennsylvania road rushed us to New York without missing schedule time ten minutes anywhere on the route; and there ended one of the most enjoyable five-thousand-mile journeys I have ever had the good fortune to make. [5]
Not a whole pack, true for ye, but not enough missing to signify. [5]
She, above all, ought not to be missing from the hall of audience of Caesar the pontiff of heaven! [10]
Garotte was the only missing member of the quartette. [11]
His next letter, of which the beginning is missing, describes the fire. [5]
If the flavor of the peach and the fragrance of the rose are not found in some fruit and flower which grow by the side of the river of life, an earth-born spirit might be forgiven for missing them. [6]
A young friend of mine is missing, and I thought it possible I might learn something here about it. [6]
There was no name missing from the register. [5]
The key of my room at a certain great hotel was missing, and this Teutonic maiden was summoned to give information respecting it. [6]
I never let Mr. Buckstone have the speech till the last moment, and when you hurried off to the House with it, you did not know there was a missing page, of course, but I did. [5]
Also among the missing were several mere baronesses--and I wanted them to stay missing; but no, all that sausage-meat had to be found; so servants were sent out with torches to scour the woods and hills to that end. [5]
But wherever it may be, many a man will be missing tomorrow! [2]
One Sunday he made himself the envy of all the youth and the talk of all the admiring village, by reciting three thousand verses of Scripture without missing a word; then he went off the very next day and got drowned. [5]
I am in love with life, and I wish to live to be old, very old, that I will have known it all, from helplessness to helplessness again, missing nothing, even though much be sad to feel and bear. [11]
The two upper lines are not the horse's back, they are the reigns; there seems to be a wheel missing --this would be corrected in a finished Work, of course. [5]
The Man of Letters, so called, was missing one morning, having folded his tent--that is, packed his carpet-bag--with the silence of the Arabs, and encamped--that is, taken lodgings--in some locality which he had forgotten to indicate. [6]
I had not learned that the Greek word for sin is "a missing of the mark. [9]
So long ago it was, That from the memory of the hamlet-folk the Light has passed-- They scarce believing, now, that once it was, Or if believing, yet not missing it, And reconciled to have it gone. [5]
If any thing is missing apply to him. [10]
If anybody's missing in Brampton, you can nearly always find them in the post-office. [9]
One was missing, however; he went to his reward, whatever it was, two years ago. [5]
I can't help hoping we shall put something into that empty chair yet which will add the missing string to our social harp. [6]
Louis was dead, his brother Henry missing, and his army completely destroyed. [10]
He would have hidden the silver with the gold to wait there till his "revenge" was satisfied, and then he would have had the misfortune to find that money turn up missing. [5]
She surreptitiously possessed herself of a minute fraction of my heart, which has been missing, ever since I saw her.--Believe me, sincerely and affectionately yours, C. [14]
The next morning he was missing, as were his limited wardrobe and the trunk that held it. [6]
I, missing you, have run after the false gods. [9]
It is a hard town to get to--I run a chance of getting caught by the ice and missing next engagement. [5]
Well, on my hands and knees I crept softly around, pawing and feeling and scooping along the carpet, and among chair-legs for that missing sock; I kept that up; and still kept it up and kept it up. [5]
Once the fear had settled deeply of missing Nick at the Widow Brown's, I put my mind on my journey, and thanks to my early training I was able to keep the trail. [9]
The "religion" I had learned was salvation from sin by miracle: sin a deliberate rebellion, not a pathetic missing of the mark of life; useful service of man, not the wandering of untutored souls who had not been shown the way. [9]
The ladder they had gone for was missing from its case,--a neighbor had carried it off for the workmen who were shingling his roof. [6]
If a cashier had absconded, if a broker had disappeared, if a railroad president was missing, some of the old stories would wake up and get a fresh currency, until some new circumstance gave rise to a new hypothesis. [6]
Now you can go down again to the tents, not a hen is missing. [10]
She made an exhaustive search for the missing letters, but found none. [5]
They discussed the eastern choir, which needed complete rebuilding, the missing steeples, and the effect of the pointed arch which harmonised so admirably with the German cast of character, and did not cease until the music began. [10]
Meantime it was discovered that Owens, an overland driver, was missing, and a man ran to the large stable, and wading in, boot-top deep, discovered him asleep in his bed, awoke him, and waded out again. [5]
If the bodies continued missing until Sunday, all hope would be given over, and the funerals would be preached on that morning. [5]
She got the case, and saw that none was missing. [11]
But when he came back insinuating, in an insolent, swaggering way, that some of this things were missing, and was going to search the other passengers' baggage, it was too much, and they threw him overboard. [5]
But when he came back insinuating in an insolent, swaggering way, that some of his things were missing, and was going to search the other passengers' baggage, it was too much, and they threw him overboard. [5]
Why, she was as fresh as a squirrel; she had slept like the dead; and as for a bath, probably neither she nor any other noble in the land had ever had one, and so she was not missing it. [5]
Now be good, and you shall have, the missing page of your great speech. [5]
I sailed round and round in it forty-four times--chasing a chip and gaining on it--each round trip a half-mile--reaching for the same bush on the bank forty-four times, and just exactly missing it by a hair's-breadth every time. [5]
You are young, and just now I felt that perhaps I should have waited a year before speaking, but I was afraid of missing altogether what I know to be the great happiness of my life. [9]
So I started again and softly pawed all over the place,--and sure enough at the end of half an hour I laid my hand on the missing article. [5]
Thirteen delegates are actually missing this time. [9]
The officer appeared abashed, as though he understood that one might think of how many men would be missing tomorrow but ought not to speak of it. [2]
After piling up a vast and intensely interesting collection, the former difficulty supervened; his great heart broke again; he sold out his soul's idol to the retired brewer who possessed the missing brick. [5]
Haschim replied that a right-minded spirit always came to a just conclusion at last; and then the conversation turned on her father, and the physician explained to the Arab that she was resolved never to weary of seeking the missing man. [10]
I will hire a man, and pin this page on his breast, and label it, 'The Missing Fragment of the Hon. [5]
Is her life a complement of mine, with the missing element in it which I have been groping after through so many friendships that I have tired of, and through--Hush! [6]
Huss says fiercely, "I gave you three weeks to find out why your books don't balance, and to prove that you are not a defaulter; the time is up--find me the missing property or you go to prison as a thief. [5]

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