How to Use deity in a Sentence

deity

noun

• The heads of Yoruba earth deities emerge around the roots of the tree and the Yoruba gods dwell at the crown of the tree.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 12 May 2018
• Sure, this is a rock deity who doesn't need to do this stuff.
  — USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• All five worshipped the same deity as The One and as each other.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 12 Feb. 2020
• The names of those four deities are included in the chant, along with the name of a fifth deity, the lawsuit says.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
• The deity in this case is the one who has dominion over the lottery.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
• It is also known as the festival of deities and demons.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
• The Celts believed deities would play tricks on humans the night of the festival.
  — Staff Author, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2024
• This is Pan, minor Greek deity, denizen of fields, flocks and forests.
  — William A. Wallace, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Fujikane tells the tale of a Hawaiian chief who falls in love with Poli’ahu, the deity of the snow on Mauna Kea.
  — Crystal Paul, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Many older pieces, like this stele, connect the moon to a deity.
  — Shannon Stirone, New York Times, 9 July 2019
• Arjun Viswanathan stood on the street, his hands folded, eyes fixed on the idol of the Hindu deity Ganesh.
  — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 17 Dec. 2022
• Instead, saints with the iconographic power of Mayan deities lined the walls.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
• The universe of the show starts with a deity called the Creator who creates the titular Wheel of Time.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
• Why did the Israelites deserve the love and protection of the deity?
  — Robert Aronson, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
• There were others, of course, but for those of us who played soccer, Pelé was a deity.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
• It’s called the Norn cell, named after the Norse deities who were believed to control human fate.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• In other words, a temple not to deities but to the lives of everyday people.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
• The Oscar winner won't be the only deity around, of course.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• Even movie theaters aren’t immune to the weaponization of Hindu deities.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• Back then, the supreme court had even said that the deity had the right to keep its vow of celibacy under right to privacy.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 6 June 2019
• In many ancient cultures, the sun was seen as a deity and a source of life that helped the crops grow every season.
  — Elissaveta M. Brandon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
• Built along the lines of a classic British game gun, the Revenant balances, swings, and shoots like it was forged by some smoothbore deity.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 26 Nov. 2019
• But Wei-Chen — the son of a deity, and secretly new to human life — is nonplussed.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
• For coach Barry Trotz, Holtby's save was a little bit of Game 1 payback from the deities.
  — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 30 May 2018
• One Maya deity, Ah Mucen Kab, was worshipped as the god of bees and honey.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
• You’re meant to start along the edges and proceed clockwise, passing the pictures of monks, deities, or patrons in their neat squares.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
• As the head of the New Gods, deities of modernity, Mr. World is constantly adapting with the times and taking on new forms.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• Instead, use the mind and heart and spirit deity has given you and find your way forward.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
• The holiday began as a time for feasting and to honor household and heavenly deities, as well as ancestors.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
• There is also a gravel walking path that includes art from a local artist featuring water deities and spirits from cultures historically found in the neighborhood.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025