How to Use missive in a Sentence

missive

noun
  • She received yet another lengthy missive from her father.
  • So far, she's received missives from dogs all over the world.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Feb. 2019
  • Antonoff echoed this opinion in his missive.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2026
  • But as spring approached, the missives took on a more urgent tone.
    — Longreads, 7 Aug. 2017
  • There are a number of suitably strange points buried in these missives.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Steph ended his missive with a peace-sign emoji.
    — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • His goal was always to send these missives out in the world and let people process them.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The missive was viewed by Deadline.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2026
  • His missives inevitably become grist for that evening’s late-night shows.
    — Steven Andreasen, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
  • This is itself a message in a bottle, a missive from a lost city of movies.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Nov. 2019
  • His sweet missive was a reminder that we are intertwined with the world.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Pen one in a short love note or use it as a writing prompt for a longer romantic missive.
    — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But with Musk's missive, his followers swarmed to the app in droves.
    — David Nield, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Now, a vinyl record of these audio missives resides on their bookcase.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • This would maximize the chance that the missive would not get lost in the background noise of our host star.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The only mission and missive to all of us is if something goes wrong is to carry on.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The new card marks the first public missive from the family under their new name.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 13 Dec. 2022
  • That’s not enough, the MPA said in its latest missive.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Ed Hardy swimwear was a riot of happy colors and bright missives about death.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The surprising missive touched off days of frantic phone calls and parsing of legalese.
    — Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2021
  • But these jailbirds aren’t using their own fingers to fire off missives or create clones.
    — Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Some were easy to dismiss—one was a long missive from a psychic—but many seemed worth pursuing.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But that doesn’t appear to be how some countries are perceiving the missives.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 9 July 2025
  • Now, Franklin was an avid trickster and no stranger to peculiar missives.
    — Big Think, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Drake, too, raked in millions of streams and Instagram views for his own missives.
    — TIME, 7 May 2024
  • Up, down, left and right — mail missives were rocketing toward the center screen.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • Its new report is just the latest in a long line of doomsaying missives on the subject.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The book opens with a missive from his desk about the Plaza Athénée and his time thus far at its creative helm.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2023
  • No doubt investors will be watching for a Musk missive for the real story.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 3 Oct. 2019
  • It may be partially done by public missives and speeches, but a lot of this has to be behind the scenes.
    — Margaret Talev, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2017

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