Example sentences for: missive

How can you use “missive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But after your last missive, I can't help myself.

  • An incriminating missive has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous fortune hunter, Mrs. Cheveley (Julianne Moore), who's happy to destroy it if Chiltern trashes his high ideals and throws his support to a real-estate scam in which his blackmailer is heavily invested.

  • A glaring recent exception was a misguided missive that railed against the perceived (by the author) rising popularity of empathy at the expense of good old fashioned sympathy .

  • More on AOL in my next missive.

  • There is a peculiar rumor circulating that Stanley Kubrick expired while clutching a fax from a top Warner Bros. executive congratulating him on his recently screened Eyes Wide Shut . That this was a favorable missive is what makes the report so mordant, so mysterious.


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