Below you will find example sentences with "went missing". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Went Missing in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: missing
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 23
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 29.7 words

Words in this phrase

went missing

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • went can mean: simple past of go Common word
  • missing can mean: present participle and gerund of miss Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 1 start, 12 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

andrew who went missing on september 1× boy that went missing saturday morning 1× brother daniel went missing on april 1× closs who went missing several days 1× combatants who went missing in action 1× denise beaudin went missing new hampshire 1× flight 370 went missing digitalglobe launched 1× lewis who went missing on 18 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a sheriff s 1× albert collins who 1× at a recent 1× emma nassem heard 1× even though ulysses 1× however viewers are 1×

Common sentence endings:

as of monday 1× border in 1954 1× but returned safely 1× dead police said 1× for the first 1× have been identified 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

old 6× year 5× years 5× home 3× area 2× case 2× six 2× school 2× seen 2× two 2× carol 2× don 2×

Related phrases

went viral reported missing missing person went down missing persons went ahead went inside avoid missing

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around missing:

reported missing 20× missing person 18× missing persons 14×

Just before it in the phrase index:

went inside went down went ahead wembley stadium welsh ambulance wells fargo

Just after it in the phrase index:

went viral weren able weren enough weren running weren supposed weren sure

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

went viral went down went ahead went inside

Same ending:

reported missing avoid missing

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "went missing" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as andrew who went missing on september, boy that went missing saturday morning, old, year and years stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with went viral, reported missing, missing person, reported missing, missing person and missing persons, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with went missing

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

He said those listed as missing are only war combatants who went missing in action. (15 words)

Missing Children Minnesota said Corrine was 5 when she went missing, and she's 32 as of Monday. (18 words)

Pet cat goes missing, returns home with bill for damages The pet cat went missing for three days but returned safely. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

It was previously suspected that the case of Edgar going missing might have been inspired by the story of Etan Patz, a six-year-old who went missing on his way to school in Manhattan in 1979 and who was never seen again. (43 words)

Recalling the night the coat went missing, he said: “We were about to go home and I went to go and get my coat which was on top of a chair with my friends’ coats and it wasn’t anywhere to be seen. (43 words)

Emma Nassem heard the report broadcast on her local radio station and questioned whether the missing man could be her uncle, Mr Le Masne, who went missing after skiing in a storm near the Matterhorn by the Swiss border in 1954. (41 words)

Example sentences (20)

The missing actor is thought to have been somewhere in the popular Baldy Bowl area of the California mountain range when he went missing on Friday.

It was previously suspected that the case of Edgar going missing might have been inspired by the story of Etan Patz, a six-year-old who went missing on his way to school in Manhattan in 1979 and who was never seen again.

Meanwhile, two missing members of the construction crew who were working on the and went missing after its collapse have been identified.

The mother of missing Briton Jay Slater has spoken of her “heartache” and criticised “awful comments and conspiracy theories” as it approaches a month since the teenager went missing in Tenerife.

Albert Collins, who lives in the neighborhood, said his 53-year-old brother, Daniel, went missing on April 21. Missing person fliers were posted at several businesses in the area.

However, viewers are also fascinated by Carol Baskin’s missing millionaire ex-husband Don Lewis, who went missing on 18 August 1997 aged 59. Subsequently, Carol inherited his fortune.

Missing Boy, 11, Found Dead In PlacervilleAn 11-year-old boy that went missing Saturday morning in Placerville has been found dead, police said.

Missing Children Minnesota said Corrine was 5 when she went missing, and she's 32 as of Monday.

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Pet cat goes missing, returns home with bill for damages The pet cat went missing for three days but returned safely.

So in 2016, more than 30 years after Denise Beaudin went missing, New Hampshire authorities opened a missing persons case for the first.

The Ananda Alert system for reporting missing children was named after Ananda Dean, an 11-year-old student of the Swallowfield All-Age School in St Andrew, who went missing on September 17, 2008.

At a recent press conference, "Mafgood" initiative spokespersons put the number of missing individuals at 22 persons of whom 10 went missing during the sit-in crackdown.

Even though Ulysses, his best bird, is not fast, he is reliable (he did once go missing for six weeks but, like his namesake, who went missing for 10 years, he returned eventually).

He said those listed as missing are only war combatants who went missing in action.

A sheriff’s office in Wisconsin is asking for 100 volunteers to help to search for missing 13-year-old Jayme Closs, who went missing several days ago and whose parents were found shot to death in their Barron home.

Emma Nassem heard the report broadcast on her local radio station and questioned whether the missing man could be her uncle, Mr Le Masne, who went missing after skiing in a storm near the Matterhorn by the Swiss border in 1954.

Pearl Pinson Is Still Missing 2 Years Later, And Police Still Don't Have AnswersPearl Pinson was just 15-years-old when she went missing two years ago on May 25th.

In March 2014, after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, DigitalGlobe launched a crowdsourcing service on which users could help search for the missing jet in satellite images.

Nichols declined to comment on whether the body may be that of Tylar Michaud, a Steuben lobsterman who went missing on July 21 after he went out to haul traps near Petit Manan Island.

Recalling the night the coat went missing, he said: “We were about to go home and I went to go and get my coat which was on top of a chair with my friends’ coats and it wasn’t anywhere to be seen.

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