How to Use missive in a Sentence

missive

noun

• She received yet another lengthy missive from her father.
• So far, she's received missives from dogs all over the world.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Feb. 2019
• 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
• This is itself a message in a bottle, a missive from a lost city of movies.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Health is understandably at the forefront of the NEA’s missive.
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, Essence, 23 June 2020
• Eight of the foreign-ministry missives have occurred since May 1.
  — Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 15 June 2019
• In fact, weeks ago when the playoffs started, Manfred fired a missive at the City of Oakland, threatening that the A’s could be moved.
  — John Canzano | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2019
• Now, a vinyl record of these audio missives resides on their bookcase.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• No doubt investors will be watching for a Musk missive for the real story.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 3 Oct. 2019
• Clocking in at more than 500 pages, Pence’s missive is as much about what has come before as what may come after.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 15 Nov. 2022
• The missive is not the first time a billionaire has made the argument for taxing the wealthiest more.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 24 June 2019
• Some were easy to dismiss—one was a long missive from a psychic—but many seemed worth pursuing.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• And on a housekeeping note, this will be the last daily missive of the Capsule for the foreseeable future.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 31 July 2020
• But for the people writing these missives, challenges abound.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 13 Apr. 2023
• In some cases, the recipients were dead, killed in action before the missives reached their hands.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• Turner slipped one of the handwritten letters under the glass of their office desk, assuming such missives were a rite of passage for Democrats in a deep-red state.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 15 June 2024

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024