Example sentences for: missive

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • The letters section of the WP contains a missive from former CIA terrorism official and current TV terrorism expert Vincent Cannistraro.

  • 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.


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