How to Use manna in a Sentence

manna

noun

• Your generous gift was manna from heaven.
• Pop stardom combines with sporting glory in a particularly bountiful way: manna from the gods of promotion.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• To them, the fresh episodes felt like manna from heaven.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• In fields where new data rarely comes to light, the Scrolls have seemed to be manna from heaven.
  — Patrick T. Reardon, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• And yet, for Trump’s opponents, the tweets are like #manna.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
• But that request was manna from heaven, a gift from the basketball gods, and the team knew it.
  — Chris Mannix, SI.com, 12 July 2019
• Which made the Longhorns’ late-season surge feel like manna from the basketball gods.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 27 Mar. 2020
• For a bighorn fan like Hughson, this is manna from heaven.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
• And the pool’s water felt like manna from heaven, a respite from the midday sun’s searing rays.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Aug. 2022
• Next, the team captured 12 wild koalas from a manna gum forest in Cape Otway.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• The lines echoed the Exodus story, how the Lord saved the Israelites in the desert by sending them quail and manna from heaven.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Ohtani is manna from heaven, but the Angels can’t be content with just him.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Doesn’t a big star at a prime position drop out of the sky like manna from heaven and change fortunes for years?
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 July 2017
• To a sharp-eared central banker, that doesn’t sound like an all-clear to let the monetary manna flow freely and give up the campaign against bad debt.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• So that is the only thing that actually occurred at the time that manna for was with the Trump campaign.
  — Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018
• So God provided manna in the wilderness, and the wanderers ate their fill.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• What message and manna from heaven are falling into your mind and mouth?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2022
• If carrying a plastic jar freaks out the weight weenie in your life, Soom now puts this manna (and other flavors) in one-ounce packs.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 25 Nov. 2022
• The tragic thing is that near all the stripped manna gum trees, there was plenty of another kind of eucalyptus.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• The characins feed on manna from heaven – insects that fall into the water from overhanging plants.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2012
• Along the way, someone tried to feed Moses peanut butter crackers, but Moses did not want a golf tournament’s manna from heaven.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 10 May 2023
• Each person was instructed to collect enough — and only enough — of this manna for their daily need.
  — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
• In economic terms for nursery growers, the tree was manna from heaven.
  — Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
• And, like manna from heaven, now the world’s largest battery backup facility is up and running in San Diego.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2020
• Not all the old folks have died off yet, and even among the young there are a few iconoclasts who reject this technological manna from heaven.
  — Tony Long, WIRED, 23 Nov. 2006
• For Safe Haven, brother Terry has turned out to be marketing manna from heaven.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2019
• Lena Dunham!—are manna for media heaven, but this one was special order.
  — Laura Brown, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2016
• But unless manna from heaven can power Madrid hospital rooms and Frankfurt e-bikes, a ramp up in solar and wind won’t do.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• The center’s director and founder, Teresa Coleman Wash, says the funding has been roughly akin to manna from heaven.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2021
• But this excess manna quickly rotted and filled with maggots.
  — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024