9 sentences with 'missing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word missing and other words derived from it.
• « In the rhetoric of the Assembly, however, women were missing from the emancipatory logic. There were no debates in the Assembly concerning women's rights, in stark contrast to the lengthy arguments about religious minorities and the black inhabitants of the colonies. »
• « Ultimately, the Battle of the Somme produced 420,000 British casualties (i.e. killed, missing or wounded to the point of being unable to fight), 200,000 French casualties and 650,000 German casualties. A British poet later remarked that "the war had won" the battle, not the countries or the people. »
• « For Russia and France, of the twenty million men mobilised during the war, more than 76% were casualties (killed, wounded or missing). An entire generation of young men was almost wiped out, with lasting demographic consequences for both countries. »
• « The British saw a casualty rate of "only" 39%, but that figure still represented the deaths of nearly a million men, with many more wounded or missing. »
• « Within two weeks, around the time of Zach's attack, the same wolf took a camper's backpack while he was using it as a pillow, and several items went missing from other campsites. »
• « -I'm Bjorn," he said, "The missing painting is just south of Oslo. // Then he suggested going right then and there to close the deal. »
• « San Jose police receive 10 to 15 missing children reports a day. Luckily, most of the time they find the child an hour or two later, either asleep under a bed, riding a bicycle around the corner or playing in a neighbour's yard. But whenever it's a child under 12, they act with more haste. »