How to Use mission in a Sentence

mission

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  • Our mission was to recover the stolen plans.
  • By patient negotiation she succeeded in her mission of averting a strike.
  • The spy mission only exists to make the family stronger by the end of the film.
    — Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Binkley says the mission of his campaign is to unite the country with the love of God.
    — Alex Tabet, NBC News, 28 July 2023
  • The British Embassy said staff had not yet been told to leave, and the mission was in close contact with the U.N. on the issue.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Most of his 31 combat missions in the B-17s were over Germany.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.
    — Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Just keep my eye on the mission today and the mission that was yesterday.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
  • One of the key missions of the Space Force is to train troops skilled in detecting and defending against those threats.
    — Matthew Lee, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Tang is a veteran who led a 2021 space mission for three months.
    — TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Wenders, now making his fifth 3-D project, calls his use of the format a mission.
    — Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Regardless of a lack of agreement, both the county and district share the same mission, Franklin said.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But for now, their mission is to merge silly with a bit of science, and to explore the importance of play for play’s sake.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Mantz served a mission in Ghana, while Young spent two years on a mission in North Carolina.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The missions come as several nations have sent spacecraft to the moon in recent years.
    — Christian Davenport The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Hundreds of people who had gathered to watch the launch cheered as India’s sun mission took off.
    — Ashok Sharma and Aijaz Hussain, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • So that kind of simulates what might happen on a space mission.
    — Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The operating cost of the mission is $3.1 million, spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said in an email.
    — Sarah Rankin, ajc, 1 June 2023
  • The professor says his team was honored to be trusted with the retrieval mission.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But such missions face many immense challenges, any one of which could prove to be a showstopper.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The total cost of the mission, minus the cost of launching it, is estimated to be $850 million.
    — Sabrina Malhi, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • All of those folks, they’re meant to be neutral public servants whose mission is to serve the public, not to serve any one party.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
  • As was widely reported in 2018, Chau’s mission did not work out well.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Join the Friends for a fundraiser at City-State Brewing, with live music and a chance to learn more about the organization’s mission.
    — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The company is planning to send another mission to the moon later this year.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The mission is meant to study how the eclipse might disturb the ionosphere, the high-up region of Earth’s atmosphere that produces the planet’s magnetic field.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The Spanish removed the Ohlone from their villages and forced them into labor at local missions.
    — Olga R. Rodriguez, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The mission for the Ukrainian unit was to take a single house, in a village that is only a speck on the map but was serving as a stronghold for Russian soldiers.
    — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The dramatic views are a tantalizing first glimpse of what the dark universe-mapping telescope could yield over the course of its six-year mission.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • This new chapter in the growth of mixed martial arts has emboldened us to reach consumers at the gym and in their homes while building ‘MMA' to further utilize our resources to support that mission.
    — Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2024

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