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How to use misses in a sentence

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She has no daughters, or daughters-in-law, and only one sister, so I think she sort of misses out by not having a close female friend.
As one arrow after the next misses its mark, all the boys immediately run for cover, but secret crushes soon rise to the surface.
As she develops she should be able to reach out and grab an object, even though she often misses the mark on the first try.
There is pronounced scuttle shake over potholes too, but this kind of critique really misses the point.
He's gone all soppy, crying because he misses Saskia and being a kind ear to listen to all Craig's miserable longings.
I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, but I think that sort of self-analysis completely misses the point.
She catches up with her friends, she shops, she goes to the flicks, she misses her family.
Because 99 percent of us bring the putter back with the toe slightly open, most misses are going to be pushed outside the intended line.
He misses, the ball lands in the block hole, and makes contact with the pads.
I have near misses with tradies on a regular basis who refuse to give way at traffic lights and roundabouts.
She misses the freedom she had in Germany and slowly sinks into a mire of drugs and alcohol.
If a reader misses such allegorical correspondences, he or she may completely misread the book.
His throwing of the ball is sensational and rarely misses the target intended.
The beat-up old car speeds through, the driver not caring for the innocent children as he narrowly misses them all.
Krista misses the bullet pass and the pro-sized foot ball ricochets off the far fence and into the gutter.
On top of this, he also breaks his promise of no contact after Terry misses her date at the Empire State Building.
He rarely misses an opportunity to remind me of in the fact that he is some years my junior!
She's fiercely proud of her roots there and never misses an opportunity to promote her native place.
Essentially, Bruce is discontented with nearly everything in his life, and rarely misses an opportunity to complain about it.
He never misses the opportunity to put across the views of grass roots farmers to the major decision makers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But by this method one misses much of the characterisation which is such an attractive feature of the analects.
One misses, now and then, crispness of phrase and force of characterisation.
You, Nizzo and Ragna, enter the air-lock with Jarl so that if he misses, you can pull him back.
She is as unlike that as she is unlike the simpering misses that used to surround me as a child.
But the advocate of revivalism quite misses the true significance of the fact.
Turnbull misses the rhythmical play in the first and second 'though,' and punctuates the second so as to read with next line.
Often a question would pass round the whole Form, and the number of misses to each name began greatly to outbalance the marks.
Peretz is one of the literary masters of to-day, but he writes in Yiddish, so the world misses his greatness.
Answers on page 94 Other lives Twice placed in the Champion Hurdle, Galatian was one of Vincent O'Brien's Cheltenham Festival near misses.
Baloo the bear misses his old song-and-dance partner, while the tiger Shere Kahn wants revenge for the humiliating thrashing Mowgli gave him.
This misses the point that abundant whale stocks and abundant fish stocks have co-existed through millennia.
In last week's loss to UCLA, Rhodes went 1 for 6 from the field, with most of his misses air balls.
If he misses a hole, his marble is lost to the owner of the bridgeboard.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer has finally staked her last blood sucker, but while she misses the show she admits it was time to call it a day.
This is exactly the point where our easygoing rationalist misses the mark.
Ay, an some lucky misses too, mim, that some think he likes as weel.
He misses the mystic hour when ghosts of the green 128 life are about.
He misses his, now that it's rusted so fast that it won't go.
Because the plane of the Moon's orbit is tilted slightly to the ecliptic, in most months the Sun-Moon-Earth alignment is not exact and the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
Somehow it misses your blind and clomps off into the distance.
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