How to Use missing link in a Sentence

missing link

noun

• Police are hopeful that the new evidence will provide the missing links needed to solve the crime.
• Could a cup of Joe be the missing link between you and a great nap?
  — Ebony Williams, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
• Sweetgreen was the missing link to bring the vision to life.
  — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 9 Apr. 2018
• The project would complete a missing link in the Northern Strand path that snakes up to the city of Lynn.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• Would such a creature prove to be a missing link of some kind?
  — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2020
• The two have to work together to find their missing link.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2023
• The companies that haven't done as well for us had a missing link in that chain.
  — Karl Kaufman, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• Smith would be the missing link on a team seeking its first title in 31 years.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
• With Kim and her sisters, though, the missing link is self-awareness.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
• This missing link was the object of Wiles’ seven-year quest.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2019
• To find the missing link, researchers must change their approach.
  — Luke Taylor, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
• This is only one of a few good candidates for the missing link black holes.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 6 May 2020
• Despite his youth, Texas believes Brown is the missing link.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• In their pursuit of the Scudetto, someone like him could be the missing link.
  — SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• The power of apology could be the missing link in the North Korean saga.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2018
• There’s clearly not just a screw loose in Giuliani but a missing link in his story with Trump.
  — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 9 May 2018
• The Browns will be viewing this draft with an eye to the future as opposed to finding the missing link to get them to the Super Bowl this year.
  — cleveland, 18 Apr. 2021
• To add a dash of chicness to your capsule wardrobe, these Lattelier chain loafers are the missing link.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 6 July 2022
• The animals may be the missing link between the first complex life forms on Earth and humans.
  — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2021
• Kavanaugh, Halas felt, was the missing link between the Bears and greatness.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2019
• For now, though, scientists will have to keep searching for its missing link.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Nov. 2021
• Five-star freshman Jabari Smith (15.2 ppg) has been the difference-maker and missing link on this squad.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2022
• And who is the missing link between Marilyn Monroe and Paris Hilton?
  — Lili Anolik, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2020
• The property that New York Waterway acquired late last year is the missing link in that plan.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• The cousins, though, weren’t from the same branch of the family tree, so Moore needed to identify the missing link connecting them.
  — Fortune, 14 June 2018
• So, from the optimal CFO profile perspective, that’s a void or a missing link for me.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
• Dollars available for relief for these types of things could be the missing link to preserving our city.
  — Caitlin McCabe, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Astronomers might have found a missing link in black hole evolution.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• For almost a decade, Lupas had puzzled over this missing link, but the correct shape had eluded him.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
• Piltdown Man, as the specimen was nicknamed, was a leading contender for the missing link until it was exposed in 1953 as a fraudulent pairing of a modern human skull with an orangutan's lower jaw.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024