How to Use miss in a Sentence
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Culinary Masters 2024 Don’t miss the food event of the year.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
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Culinary Masters 2023 Don’t miss the food event of the year.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 June 2023
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See you in the stratosphere! Don't miss the next big beauty sale.
—Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
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There was no way to miss the snake, which Elfenbein said stretched out almost the length of the road.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
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Murphy then missed his first kick of the day, shanking the extra point to the right.
—Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2023
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Justin Medlock missed a 35-yard field goal in the third quarter, a pivotal play in a tight game.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
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Since the cicadas emerge all at once, their sound is hard to miss, but the CDC advises folks not to fret.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
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Kyiv said at least four people had died and 13 were missing.
—Fox News, 9 June 2023
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James’ hand was in Leonard’s face when Leonard missed a fallaway jumper that could have tied the score with five seconds left.
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
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Soon after, Sam Coffey fired one at goal from the edge of the box that narrowly missed at the far post.
—oregonlive, 12 June 2023
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Laura had missed the Big 12 championships due to surgery.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2024
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Remarkably, Judge still leads the team in home runs (19) and RBI (40) despite missing the last six weeks.
—Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
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Dunbar had a chance to win the game at the line with two-tenths of a second left, but both free throws were missed sending the game to overtime.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2024
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The Warriors had hustled down the floor for a final shot, but David Mack’s wild 3-point try missed badly.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024
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Curry, Green and Klay Thompson were mostly healthy all year, and the Warriors still missed the playoffs.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
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Glasnow missed more time at the start of last season, sidelined until late May by a left oblique strain.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
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And a mother searched 172 days for her missing son, only to find out police had buried him.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
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He's regained his confidence that was missing in the spring.
—Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2023
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An essential piece for mom had always been missing from the space, too.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
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Young, who somehow missed only one of 17 games due to injury, kept getting up to get knocked back down again.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 28 Apr. 2024
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Heat players have missed the NBA’s fourth-most games due to injury after missing the eighth-most last season.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2024
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Bond’s affidavit did not address the question of the missing items.
—Thomas Lake, CNN, 30 May 2023
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Most of these are teenage boys who have disappeared from his small village, and any one could be among his missing friends.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
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The sheriff's office said the total value of the missing items is not being released at this time.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2023
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Ohtani has also missed only one game so far this year, a routine day off May 1 during the team’s road trip to Arizona.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
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Raff and Kroh spoke of others that had been poisoned or had simply gone missing, as cats will do when coyotes are present.
—Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
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The search continues for a missing person last seen in the water at Wildcat Beach this morning.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2023
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Animal lovers shouldn’t miss a trip to this somewhat hidden gem in Jacksonville.
—Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 26 Dec. 2023
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After three young Black players missed penalty kicks in the 2021 defeat, they were subjected to racist slurs.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
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Advertisement There’s no missing the passion fruit in Wong’s version.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2024
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The miss left him 1 of 4 this season on kicks from 50 yards or longer.
—Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
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With 8 seconds left Horne made one of two tries and a tie-up was called on the miss.
—Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
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If there’s little to be gained beyond the food, give it a miss.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
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Pundits were quick to pronounce Pixar had botched the recipe in a rare miss.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
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With the score 56-50, Cheli sliced through the lane for a rebound and put back a teammate’s miss.
—Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
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The 27-year-old got 16 swings and misses, with at least one on all five of his pitches.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2023
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JJ Traynor on a free-throw miss from Oscar Tshiebwe with 15:02 to play in the first half.
—Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 31 Dec. 2022
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If the Oscars don’t have Ryan perform that will be a big miss on their part.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
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His 14 free throws without a miss tied the school single-game record.
—Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
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Apple’s Friday night MLB games have been a swing and a miss.
—Aden Ikram, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
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York wasn’t in the best mindset last season as the misses piled up.
—Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2023
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Perhaps the biggest miss from the free-throw line was by Wendell Green with 1:53 left.
—al, 18 Feb. 2023
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Aimaq then tipped in a miss by Jaylon Tyson, giving the lead back to Cal with 45 seconds left.
—Jeff Faraudo, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
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Doc Rivers popularized the aphorism that the NBA is a make-or-miss league.
—Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
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Berman went 0-of-4 from beyond the arc against Iowa, including a miss that hit off the side of the backboard in the second half.
—Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2023
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But the strategy of hiking prices can often be a hit or a miss.
—Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
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That resulted in the Bass miss, and two plays later, an Isiah Pacheco run picked up a first down and sealed the win.
—Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
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Another sign that could be a hit or a miss with Aquarius is Pisces.
—Aryelle Siclait, Women's Health, 2 Feb. 2023
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That said, an artist not matching their opus isn’t the automatic mark of a miss.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
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Less than one minute later, Jordan Walsh cleaned up a miss by Makhi Mitchell and got a putback to go.
—Scottie Bordelon, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
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The ball hit the ground on only six of them, and only two were actual misses.
—Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2023
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His major miss, however, is in the magnitude of the change.
—WSJ, 15 June 2023
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He didn’t get caught on pump fakes, stayed low and used his length to bother the shots, which led to several UH misses.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2024
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Youngsters scrambled about to pick up the cards with each miss until one card ascended to the world-record height.
—cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
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Their margin of error became thinner with each miss just as the Bucks’ lead grew with each make.
—Khobi Price, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2023
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My point is, the hits outnumber the misses — and there’s no going home hungry.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
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Osman appeared to have a clear path to an easy layup, but a Portland defender caught up to him in time to force a miss.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2023
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Most resulted in swings and misses, weak contact and a lot of frustrated walks back to the dugout.
—Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
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The misses were smaller and the strikes were more competitive.
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
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Jokic sank a 3-pointer, Caldwell-Pope rebounded his own miss for a layup, and within minutes, Porter had a chance at a game-tying 4-point play.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2024
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