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.
• For me, this was that missing link.
  — Samantha Leal, Refinery29, 6 Jan. 2026
• Would such a creature prove to be a missing link of some kind?
  — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2020
• Could a cup of Joe be the missing link between you and a great nap?
  — Ebony Williams, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
• To find the missing link, researchers must change their approach.
  — Luke Taylor, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
• The missing link between a so-so dish and a stellar one is often acid.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2025
• The missing link is the enterprise agent.
  — Doug Shannon, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• This is only one of a few good candidates for the missing link black holes.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 6 May 2020
• Smith would be the missing link on a team seeking its first title in 31 years.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
• Astronomers might have found a missing link in black hole evolution.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• For now, though, scientists will have to keep searching for its missing link.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Nov. 2021
• With Kim and her sisters, though, the missing link is self-awareness.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
• The missing link in most AI strategies isn’t more compute.
  — David Noy, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• This is the missing link that has held back security programs.
  — Brian Soby, Forbes.com, 14 Jan. 2026
• That's the feature control gap, the missing link between speed and safety.
  — Edith Harbaugh, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026
• But could the ingredient also be a missing link in your skin-care routine?
  — Allure, 20 Mar. 2019
• 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
• In their pursuit of the Scudetto, someone like him could be the missing link.
  — SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• The missing link was in the biology of behavior and body build.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025
• 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
• This is one of the missing links in making much more capable robots and AVs.
  — Pcmag Staff, PCMAG, 9 Jan. 2025
• Her father remains the missing link, the mislaid brick that would make her foundation sturdier and safer.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2021
• 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
• For almost a decade, Lupas had puzzled over this missing link, but the correct shape had eluded him.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
• For some users looking for answers to health mysteries or to find missing links to their family trees, the trade-off is worth it.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
• This is the missing link in the affordability debate.
  — Arindrajit Dube, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
• Kavanaugh, Halas felt, was the missing link between the Bears and greatness.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2019
• Tempted to think that his own sense of justice was the missing link, Obama tried to be an impartial arbiter.
  — Mario Loyola, National Review, 13 Aug. 2020
• The missing link in the Rockies’ early-season slide remains their offense.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2026