MISSION in a Sentence

Learn MISSION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
174 example sentences for MISSION, such as:
1. The rescue mission had to be aborted.
2. The minister was sent to Spain on mission.
3. The navy are on a search and rescue mission.
4. It was evident to me that the mission would fail.
5. Her mission in life was to work with the homeless.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MISSION
mission
 n.  an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
 n.  a special assignment that is given to a person or group
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  So, at last the horny-handed lady comes to her real mission.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  Belle Watling herself answered Captain Jaffery's summons, and before he could make known his mission she shouted that the house was closed for the night.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
3  He responded joyfully that to do so was his mission in life, and asked what form the rescue was to take.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
4  When Kennicott boasted, "We went through the mission at Santa Barbara," Harry broke in, "Yeh, that's an interesting old mission."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  It did rather seem to me that Cuzak had been made the instrument of Antonia's special mission.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
6  She had thought of speaking to the cook concerning her blunders of the previous night; but Mr. Pontellier had saved her that disagreeable mission, for which she was so poorly fitted.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
7  And it was not long before all the men seemed to forget their mission.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  He made his horse bound into a gallop almost from a walk in his haste to go upon his mission.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  To that mission its stern, inflexible, energetic elements, were well adapted; but, as a Christian, I look for another era to arise.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  When I wander, her gentler spirit ever restores me, and keeps before my eyes the Christian calling and mission of our race.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  The yeoman having thus accomplished his mission, returned to the head-quarters of the allies, which were for the present established under a venerable oak-tree, about three arrow-flights distant from the castle.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  And so saying he imitated the solemn and stately deportment of a friar, and departed to execute his mission.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  Oliver obeyed, and followed his master on his professional mission.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  It looks as if they always send their singular warning or token before them when starting upon their mission.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
15  All this, however, is foreign to the mission on which you sent me and will probably be very uninteresting to your severely practical mind.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
Example Sentence: (123 in 9 pages)
1  According to the army, the teenager said he was on a "suicide mission" for the movement.
2  They say God spoke to them and told them to go on a mission to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
3  In the film, he plays a spy whose mission is to confirm the verity of a secret military document.
4  It was evident to me that the mission would fail.
5  The minister was sent to Spain on mission.
6  The delegation completed its mission successfully.
7  The rescue mission had to be aborted.
8  The troops are on a mercy mission in the war zone.
9  Your mission is to isolate the enemy by destroying all the bridges across the river.
10  Salisbury sent him on a diplomatic mission to North America.
11  He regards it as his mission to help the cause of the world peace.
12  Her mission in life was to work with the homeless.
13  The navy are on a search and rescue mission.
14  He viewed his mission in life as protecting the weak from the evil.
15  The UN Secretary General is on a fence-mending mission.