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.
• But there was one thing missing.
  — Meghan Pryce, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
• In the end, a goal was all that was missing.
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• Of course, fans are used to stars missing games.
  — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
• Well, first of all, there’s the missing face.
  — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• Large pieces of skin and flesh were carved out and missing.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
• All that was missing were a dozen dancers and a town square.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
• Robert is a missing at-risk 16-year-old.
  — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 9 June 2026
• The dress is not the first relic from the movie to go missing.
  — NBC News, 21 Apr. 2022
• That’s the missing chink in the armor right now.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
• Pats will earn some of that missing respect here.
  — Greg Cote january 15, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2026
• The cook’s line had lights out and a missing light cover.
  — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado february 13, Sacbee.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• What happens when no one goes missing?
  — Yesika Salgado, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
• The bodies of three girls who went missing last month have been found.
  — Angel Saunders, People.com, 2 May 2025
• Each where missing or killed women were last seen or known to be.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
• When cadence is missing, teams don’t just slow down.
  — Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• Maybe there’s some missing piece here that makes the story make sense.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• There was only one thing missing.
  — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
• What has changed is the number of people that die or go missing.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2022
• But little could explain how the man and his dog went missing.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• There is just something missing.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 12 June 2026
• But the flow was a little bit missing today, too.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
• This was the one USC was missing.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
• For payers trying to bend the cost curve, this is a missing piece.
  — Kristian Ranta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• Something was missing, and Bloom sought to find out what that was.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
• So, for example, three of my books are about a child that goes missing.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
• In fact, the Longhorns kept swinging and missing.
  — Danny Davis, Austin American Statesman, 3 Apr. 2026
• If the missing words were a mystery, the word for what happened to them was not.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
• But there were also key missing pieces, one of which was climate change.
  — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• There's not going to be any more missing children.
  — Stepheny Price , Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025