How to Use mission in a Sentence

mission

noun

• Our mission was to recover the stolen plans.
• By patient negotiation she succeeded in her mission of averting a strike.
• The spy mission only exists to make the family stronger by the end of the film.
  — Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Binkley says the mission of his campaign is to unite the country with the love of God.
  — Alex Tabet, NBC News, 28 July 2023
• The British Embassy said staff had not yet been told to leave, and the mission was in close contact with the U.N. on the issue.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2024
• Most of his 31 combat missions in the B-17s were over Germany.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
• My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.
  — Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• Just keep my eye on the mission today and the mission that was yesterday.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
• One of the key missions of the Space Force is to train troops skilled in detecting and defending against those threats.
  — Matthew Lee, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• Tang is a veteran who led a 2021 space mission for three months.
  — TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
• Wenders, now making his fifth 3-D project, calls his use of the format a mission.
  — Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Regardless of a lack of agreement, both the county and district share the same mission, Franklin said.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• But for now, their mission is to merge silly with a bit of science, and to explore the importance of play for play’s sake.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• Mantz served a mission in Ghana, while Young spent two years on a mission in North Carolina.
  — Ben Church, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• The missions come as several nations have sent spacecraft to the moon in recent years.
  — Christian Davenport The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2023
• Hundreds of people who had gathered to watch the launch cheered as India’s sun mission took off.
  — Ashok Sharma and Aijaz Hussain, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• So that kind of simulates what might happen on a space mission.
  — Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 16 Feb. 2024
• The operating cost of the mission is $3.1 million, spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said in an email.
  — Sarah Rankin, ajc, 1 June 2023
• The professor says his team was honored to be trusted with the retrieval mission.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
• But such missions face many immense challenges, any one of which could prove to be a showstopper.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
• The total cost of the mission, minus the cost of launching it, is estimated to be $850 million.
  — Sabrina Malhi, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• All of those folks, they’re meant to be neutral public servants whose mission is to serve the public, not to serve any one party.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
• As was widely reported in 2018, Chau’s mission did not work out well.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• Join the Friends for a fundraiser at City-State Brewing, with live music and a chance to learn more about the organization’s mission.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
• The company is planning to send another mission to the moon later this year.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
• The mission is meant to study how the eclipse might disturb the ionosphere, the high-up region of Earth’s atmosphere that produces the planet’s magnetic field.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• The Spanish removed the Ohlone from their villages and forced them into labor at local missions.
  — Olga R. Rodriguez, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024
• The mission for the Ukrainian unit was to take a single house, in a village that is only a speck on the map but was serving as a stronghold for Russian soldiers.
  — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• The dramatic views are a tantalizing first glimpse of what the dark universe-mapping telescope could yield over the course of its six-year mission.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• With Search Party: Chaos at the Park, kids work together (or on their own, as this can even be a single-player game) in a hands-on search to complete any of the game’s 15 missions.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024