How to use "missing" in a sentence

He will probably call my family and they will tell the police that I am missing

But there was something the officer didn't tell them: a person has to be missing for at least forty-eight hours before the police will start a search and rescue operation

He might call the police and report me missing

He loves the sea, yes, but here is something missing from his life

Two lower front teeth were missing

Two front teeth were missing at the top

The piece of bloodstained apron fitted exactly into a missing section of the victim's apron

"A missing person

"Mr Bowen, normally we need to wait forty-eight hours until we can start a missing-person investigation."

Mrs Danvers noticed it was missing late this morning

But the fact that two were missing wasn't what drew Vivienne's attention

When he discovered the nature of the maps, when he realized that one of them was missing, and when he discovered that the missing map was the one Stryker would need in order to find the Project Pandora labs, Alexander felt his face flush with anger and chagrin

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

Obviously, she was still cross about the missing pound note

But no one has reported these things missing.'

'Perhaps they didn't know they were missing,' I suggested

Several officers had been on the common earlier in the day and one was reported to be missing

She fired from six metres away, narrowly missing my brother

I thought about the distance to the drain and the chances of missing it completely

She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, and yet there seemed to be something missing - I did not know what.

There stood Miss Fairlie, alone outside in the moonlight, looking exactly like the woman in white! I suddenly realised that the 'something missing' was this: my realisation of the disturbing similarity between the fugitive from the asylum and my student at Limmeridge House.

At the inquest the next day, the parish clerk said that the key to the vestry had gone missing just before the fire