Example sentences for: missive

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

  • Allow me to share a portion of a missive that came my way today from our editor: "Let us in on the process of how you mine the news for subjects, what strikes you as funny, how MAD chooses its targets, etc.

  • Have a nice day (a sincere wish, expressing my hope that the reproving tone of my missive will not tarnish your humor).

  • 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.

  • It is said it is the luxury of the Internet that what the Send key giveth, the Send key can taketh away, but I still regret the error, especially in a missive declaring the requirement to respect the literary endeavor.

  • 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 .


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast