Example sentences for: missive

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • She'd probably have said a prayer, except she's too busy reading the missive in the bottle, which has been lovingly composed on a manual typewriter.


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