C1 The cassoulet lacked one ingredient.

But this storm - like so many others this winter - lacks one crucial ingredient for a city-paralyzing blizzard: frigid, arctic air.

"Monica was right about one thing: there's no time to waste, and we are lacking one essential ingredient."

It could certainly be argued that however violent and even stomach-churning some movies are these days, they lack one essential ingredient of horror.

All the miscarried efforts at revival over the past years have lacked one essential ingredient.

As a baseball player, though, Sanders lacked one basic ingredient, and that was the instruction and experience he didn't allow himself early in his career.

There had been attempts by American filmmakers but they all lacked one major ingredient, Peter Norman.

Most of the peaks described up to now lack one additional ingredient to their aspect - namely the sea.

I lacked one vital ingredient.

But it still lacks one key ingredient - the boss.