Example sentences for: missives

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

  • For one thing, her prose more closely resembles a series of e-mail missives than a rigorous argument.

  • As a striving free-lancer, I believe in the three note theory of success: i.e., send three flattering missives to the right people each day, and you'll be at the top in no time.

  • What are the sundry strands in Summer of Sam ? The whole mess is introduced by Jimmy Breslin, one-time recipient of Berkowitz's most hammily psychotic missives, who says, "There are 8 million stories in the Naked City, and this is one."

  • Even those of you who never met him, and possibly didn't appreciate his e-mail missives urging you to subscribe, are going to miss our retiring publisher, Rogers Weed, if for no other reason than his name.

  • In letter after letter Mr. Shawn gracefully responds to Farber's lengthy missives of life, love, and loss with reassuring replies, always beginning with the familiar greeting, "We regret that we are unable to use the enclosed material."


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