How to Use missive in a Sentence

missive

noun

• She received yet another lengthy missive from her father.
• The missive does not contain words of wisdom about the site.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• So far, she's received missives from dogs all over the world.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Feb. 2019
• The joint missive was the first time the US-UK governments have teamed up to put out such an alert.
  — Tal Kopan and Jessica Schneider, CNN, 16 Apr. 2018
• The book opens with a missive from his desk about the Plaza Athénée and his time thus far at its creative helm.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2023
• But with Musk's missive, his followers swarmed to the app in droves.
  — David Nield, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2021
• This would maximize the chance that the missive would not get lost in the background noise of our host star.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022
• But as spring approached, the missives took on a more urgent tone.
  — Longreads, 7 Aug. 2017
• The good folks at the Daily Beast are doing the Lord’s work and have transcribed long missives that have no point and no end.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 22 Sep. 2017
• This is itself a message in a bottle, a missive from a lost city of movies.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Nov. 2019
• There are a number of suitably strange points buried in these missives.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2017
• These missives were moldering in the basement, packed away like so much of the past that Pop would rather put behind him.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• Part of the Riverside speech is a missive to the American government, and a dire one.
  — Benjamin Hedin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2017
• The only mission and missive to all of us is if something goes wrong is to carry on.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• But his 13th missive of the day had a new target: Kristen Welker.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2020
• The new card marks the first public missive from the family under their new name.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 13 Dec. 2022
• His sweet missive was a reminder that we are intertwined with the world.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
• Pen one in a short love note or use it as a writing prompt for a longer romantic missive.
  — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 6 Jan. 2023
• How to open any missive in a week of agonizing tragedy?
  — Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2022
• In a 1,200-word missive posted to Facebook, Schilling asked to be taken off the ballot, which the Hall refused to do.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• And of course, there is the intricate spiral lock that Mary, Queen of Scots, used for her final missive.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2021
• James Bonham - dispatched by Travis more than a fortnight ago with a missive to Col.
  — Robert Kolarik, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2018
• Drake, too, raked in millions of streams and Instagram views for his own missives.
  — TIME, 7 May 2024
• Ed Hardy swimwear was a riot of happy colors and bright missives about death.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• According to these missives, Adams met with Ieyasu three times in May and June 1600.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• Its new report is just the latest in a long line of doomsaying missives on the subject.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 22 Mar. 2023
• The surprising missive touched off days of frantic phone calls and parsing of legalese.
  — Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2021
• The artists worked with the staff at the Basque Museum and Cultural Center to find a fitting missive.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 23 June 2017
• But Musk, with his megaphone of almost 200 million followers on X and his penchant for bluster, has been particularly pugilistic, with a steady stream of missives on X and letters to Congress over the last week.
  — Richard Nieva, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• The dueling missives are the latest sign that tension is simmering on Klarna’s board ahead of its potential initial public offering that’s expected to take place next year.
  — Michael Del Castillo, Fortune Europe, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024