Example sentences for: missive

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

  • Michael Lewis is congenitally incapable of being boring, but he comes damn close in his first Millionerds missive ("T.J.

  • 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 .

  • Now I am getting way too philosophical, but this is my final missive, so why not?

  • Stephen Kinzer continues his dispatches from the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in today's New York Times . Last week, it was a missive from a yak farm about that country's ancient tradition of nomadism; this week he's covering an enclave of ethnic Germans who live near the capital of Bishkek.

  • 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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