missing

Example Sentences

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Should Reaves return Friday or Sunday after missing a month with a left calf strain, it would mark only the seventh time the guard has played together with James and Doncic.

From Los Angeles Times

By comparison, if that person didn’t invest until they were age 10, missing a decade of compounding, that $1,000 investment would only grow to about $189,000 by age 65.

From MarketWatch

I’d like to bring the stroller, but Mom sold the good one and the old one is missing a wheel.

From Literature

The china cabinet was discounted to $60 at the Santa Monica Antique and Vintage Market because it was missing some glass pieces.

From Los Angeles Times

"It felt like I had finally found a missing part of myself in Ghana," she says."Leaving felt like being torn away from somewhere my soul belonged."

From BBC