How to Use deity in a Sentence

deity

noun

• Sure, this is a rock deity who doesn't need to do this stuff.
  — USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• 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
• This is Pan, minor Greek deity, denizen of fields, flocks and forests.
  — William A. Wallace, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• But Wei-Chen — the son of a deity, and secretly new to human life — is nonplussed.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
• One Maya deity, Ah Mucen Kab, was worshipped as the god of bees and honey.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
• 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
• Experts think the nine-inch-tall sculpture depicts Anat, the Canaanite deity of love and war.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2022
• The molten pink fabric was draped over a sequin bodice for a look fit for a mythical deity.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
• Daytime gods evoke the sun; the moon goddess, a nighttime deity, is sometimes a wife and sometimes a mother to the sun.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• The idea of the chef as deity goes beyond the celebrification of the profession.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• With the sea and mountains in the near distance, the scene surely could have been mistaken as a nod to the Roman deity Neptune.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 26 May 2023
• Like babi pongteh, chap chye is a dish used in ancestral and deity worship, says Tan.
  — Rachel Phua, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
• Who Shapes the Sacred Land, is a deity of both creation and destruction.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2022
• In ancient Persia, the event marked the birthday of the Sun King Mithra, a mythological deity.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The month of May is named after the Roman goddess Maia, a nature deity.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• That’s just Christ, though: deity and man, weightless word converted to meat.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024
• Kneeling on coins before the minor deity in the mirror.
  — Kaveh Akbar, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• George Strait might be a megastar, but in Austin, and nearly everywhere else, Willie is a deity.
  — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• The sun was punishing us, likely for no longer worshiping it as an all-powerful deity.
  — Roberto Baldwin, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024