How to Use messenger in a Sentence

messenger

noun

• They sent a messenger to pick up the package.
• One of the few suitors left was Pelops, son of Hermes, the messenger of the gods.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
• Most of the time, the issue is not with what was being said but with the messenger.
  — Theara Coleman, theweek, 11 Sep. 2024
• The means and messenger matter just as much as the message.
  — Chris Lee, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• These messengers tell your immune cells that there is a threat and prompts them to treat and fight the pathogen.
  — Zoie Magri, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• Our messenger should come prepared with a set of clicks that might put the whales at ease.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024
• Don’t dwell on the manner in which the breakup was delivered, and don’t shoot the messenger.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• The queen is tenderly reaching out to the messenger, as if to a child.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• The first app, named Symoo, billed itself as an easy-to-use SMS messenger.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2022
• Hermes was a known as a messenger to the gods in the Ancient Greek pantheon.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2024
• The King’s Speech is read by the king sitting upon a gilded throne, but in this case, the monarch is just the messenger.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• Yet Bush may not be the best messenger for this rebuke.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 4 May 2021
• That suggests that the problem is not the messenger, but the message.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 23 Feb. 2021
• This is what the lab is exploring now: who is the messenger?
  — Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
• When Cruise finished, the movie was given back to the messenger, who returned it to the studio.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
• This true thing needed to be said, and when the workplace became the messenger, you got spared.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• Why are we obsessed as a mob with always killing the messenger?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
• Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, in his usual role of left-flank messenger, is on a tour of eight states.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• It’s not just the messenger that matters, but also the message.
  — Abigail Abrams, Time, 25 Oct. 2022
• Drains both the messengers and their messages of power.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
• Prior to the vote, Warren made a futile appeal to the messengers.
  — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 14 June 2023
• And many books are bought to register the buyer’s approval of the message or the messenger.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• As the moon and messenger planet Mercury clash, don�t expect loved ones to read your mind!
  — USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• The caduceus is the magic wand carried by Hermes, who the Romans knew as Mercury, the messenger of the gods.
  — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• The handmade-to-order, the capacious messenger style makes a great city bag.
  — Vogue, 3 June 2022
• Back in the day, as a bicycle messenger, the World Trade Center was a daily stop.
  — Michael Quintanilla, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Sep. 2021
• Their Facebook messenger chats soon turned to phone calls.
  — Alix Wall, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• That's one reasons why the prospect of using Trump as a messenger keeps bubbling up.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 3 June 2021
• The Vatican then received a warning from a messenger claiming to be with the Illuminati — the candidates would each be killed starting at 8 p.m. that evening.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
• In both of these accounts, the messenger punctuates his announcement with a sudden expiration.
  — Miriam Kamil, JSTOR Daily, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024