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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Prior to the vote, Warren made a futile appeal to the messengers.
    Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 14 June 2023
  • 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
  • Their Facebook messenger chats soon turned to phone calls.
    Alix Wall, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Doc broke the word down into different parts and chose the rookies to be the perfect messenger.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In this campaign, she’s splayed in front of the historic statue, The Victory of Samothrace, who is a messenger of the win.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But Biden from the start wasn’t ready to welcome the departure of a top messenger in his orbit for seven years.
    Mike Memoli, NBC News, 31 July 2022
  • The messenger can send notes, photos, images, and animations and the heart on the box spins when there's new content to take in.
    Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Fossil's Haskell bag is a simple, handsome leather messenger that won't break the bank.
    Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Duki doesn’t see he himself just as an artist but as a messenger of hope and goodness.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023
  • This messenger box works with an app, the heart spinning (like yours) when a new heartfelt message is waiting to be read.
    Mark Stock, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Water is the messenger that’s delivering the bad news about climate change to your city, to your front door.
    Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2022
  • But the rise of this new messenger has disquieted some.
    Wired, 15 July 2022
  • Some instant messengers use end-to-end encryption, but not all of them do.
    WIRED, 25 June 2023
  • Put equal effort on both sides of the equation, as much on your body language and your voice as on your story, as much on the messenger as the message.
    Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Rushlow took her friend's advice to research Prophet Mohammed, whom Muslims believe is the messenger of the faith, but with the goal to find fault with the beliefs.
    Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 1 May 2022

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