How to Use missing in a Sentence

missing

adjective

• The new director has provided the missing ingredient that was needed for the show's success.
• This is one of the things that’s missing in the analysis.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• The lack of a missing report had also stood out to him.
  — Sarah Portney, NBC News, 23 July 2023
• Black and Brown girls can go missing and no one bats an eye.
  — Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2024
• The missing presence is still there and will be all year.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• The same data found that 1,368 were left dead or missing.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
• That’s odd enough, but then the black box is missing – and one of the plane’s passengers.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2022
• And on the last day, the group was accused of stealing a wallet that had gone missing at the school.
  — Annie Ma, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2023
• Here's a look at each of the missing Wisconsin children on the list.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2024
• The people who have gone missing in Greece were all in their mid-50s and older.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 19 June 2024
• The role of a mother in search of her young son who has gone missing required some singing.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
• What has changed is the number of people that die or go missing.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2022
• Book is hard to crash at first because Book wasn’t missing.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2022
• The Times asked the mayor’s team on Thursday why the Q and A has gone missing from so many of the mayor’s video clips and livestreams.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2025
• So, what will the Chargers do Sunday to make up for what’s missing?
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• Luke Bell would sometimes go missing for weeks at a time.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2022
• In fact, all that’s missing is a scene where Kate takes her glasses off and shakes her hair down.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 10 July 2024
• When the robe goes missing, Larry persuades Susie to sew the Klansman a new one.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 3 Aug. 2022
• In August 2015, Rosie announced that the then-teen had gone missing from their New York home.
  — Bailey Richards, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024
• The flight was nearly full with the exception of a few seats; the two seats next to the missing door plug happened to be empty.
  — Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2024
• Emergency crews worked nonstop for three days to search the wreckage for the dead and missing.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 18 Jan. 2023
• Sandy goes missing and, in the resulting search, fantasy takes over both Conor’s life and the movie.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
• The Athena Alert is intended to bridge the gap between the time a child goes missing and the time a statewide Amber Alert is issued.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Feb. 2025
• The investigation is ongoing, for the missing and the cause of the fire.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023
• Even if, by the end of the tune, the plowman who sings it has lost his farm, and Bessie’s missing and presumably buried on it somewhere.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025
• Shortly later, Walker went missing and his body was found in the mill.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
• Tell us what’s missing from the conversation and point out our blind spots.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• The sun’s alignment with Uranus delivers a missing piece of the puzzle.
  — USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
• The search for a missing 84-year-old man became even more challenging when rescuers located him in a marsh, but couldn’t find their way back out in the dark, Florida officials say.
  — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2025
• Three decades after remains were found in a California riverbed, they’ve been identified as a missing New York teenager, deputies say.
  — Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2025