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
• Most don white tenugui scarves on their heads and amulets to ward off sharks and evil deities lurking in the sea.
  — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2017
• Many older pieces, like this stele, connect the moon to a deity.
  — Shannon Stirone, New York Times, 9 July 2019
• The sculptures stand as both witnesses and deities.
  — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
• The deity in this case is the one who has dominion over the lottery.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
• And when three deities send her, her brother, and her friend on a mission through time and space, things get cray.
  — Katie Robinson, Seventeen, 8 Jan. 2018
• He was kissed by neither the talent gods nor the genetic deities.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• The deity massacres all of the warriors save for one, our heroine.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Marie Claire, 31 Oct. 2017
• Star athletes are worshipped as minor deities in the real world.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
• The massive idols flanking each side were silent deities blessing the dancers below.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 27 June 2017
• This is Pan, minor Greek deity, denizen of fields, flocks and forests.
  — William A. Wallace, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Fossils are the devil’s trick; some benign deity sneezed to make the world.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• Over time, Hedeyat became a deity of sorts.
  — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026
• There were others, of course, but for those of us who played soccer, Pelé was a deity.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
• All five worshipped the same deity as The One and as each other.
  — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2020
• 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 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
• 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 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 Celts believed deities would play tricks on humans the night of the festival.
  — Staff Author, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2024
• Many tribes revere the sun and moon as cultural deities, great sources of power and giver of life.
  — Felicia Fonseca, The Seattle Times, 19 Aug. 2017
• Showing due respect in using that deity’s name.
  — James Coffin, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2026
• Instead, saints with the iconographic power of Mayan deities lined the walls.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
• 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
• Many of the show’s 15 wooden figures of deities are likewise gilded.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• One solution was to set up Reason itself as a deity.
  — Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• Why did the Israelites deserve the love and protection of the deity?
  — Robert Aronson, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021