Miss

I fired the gun, but the bullet missed the target.

I tried to kick the ball, but missed.

She tried to grab hold of the end of the rope, but she missed.

Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.

Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away.

The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.

The company missed all its sales targets.

When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.

Joe missed the meeting this morning.

I usually watch the Oscars Ceremonies, but I missed it this year.

I'm starving! I missed breakfast this morning.

I only left the queue for a moment and now I've missed my turn.

This offer is too good to miss.

to miss an opportunity, to miss a chance

The car just missed hitting a passer-by.

We missed disaster by the skin of our teeth.

I miss you! Come home soon!

I miss going for walks along the beach.

I'm not going to the party, but I don't think I'll be missed.

I had left my wallet at home, but I only missed it when I got to the metro.

[…] what by me thou haſt loſt thou leaſt ſhalt miſs.

The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.

to miss the joke

So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything.

I missed the plane!

"Is Polly still here?" — "No, sorry, you've just missed her. She left a couple of minutes ago."

And we can't afford to miss the train back, as the next one is at 0704 tomorrow...

The car is missing essential features.

This jigsaw is missing several pieces.

Miss me with that nonsense!

Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!

Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements, but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili missed three penalties.

Emongst the Angels, a whole legione / Of wicked Sprights did fall from happy blis; / What wonder then, if one of women all did mis?

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

In eight shots at the target he had six misses.

"I ran from one place to another, and as it was not difficult to get a shot at him, I fired several times, but only made miss after miss."

After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss.

Your answer isn't exactly right, but it's a very close miss.

Jones put the penalty shot over the bar — what a terrible miss.

I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.

Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.

Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.

You may sit here, miss.

You may sit here, Miss Jones.

Here's my report, Miss Smith.

While thus the fiends, with wily art, Adroitly stole upon the heart, And with their complaisance, and tales, Had ruind more than half the males, Gay Vanity, with smiles, and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids, and misses.

courting a Miss

Mrs. Gardiner would be happy to see Miss March and Miss Josephine at a little dance on New-Year's-Eve.

These are the two young ladies that I wanted you to meet, Miss Jones and Miss Robinson.

The victim was named as Miss Jane Doe.

Excuse me Ma'am, will Miss Julia and Miss Emily be staying for tea?

She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

Good morning, Miss. May I help you?

Excuse me, Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again.

Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause to our lovely new Miss Yorkshire!

And I can now announce that this year's Miss Personality is ... Doris Miggins!

Don't ask me, ask Miss know-it-all over there.