How to Use messiah in a Sentence

messiah

noun

• They thought the new principal was the messiah the school had been hoping for.
• But back to the year of the three Messiahs.
  — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
• As a high school junior, he was cast as a basketball messiah.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2020
• Many of them probably will reappear when their messiah re-summons them.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2019
• Sometimes, a man goes into the desert, becomes a messiah, and ends up a goddamn monster.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 28 Sep. 2021
• Only a messiah, after all, can claim to have monopoly control of the truth.
  — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• In the end, as Walzer observes, there can be no messiahs in a democracy.
  — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
• Over the years, the Congress leader has attempted to style himself a messiah of the poor.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• How to tell a true from a false prophet, the real Christ, returned in glory, from a dime-store messiah with a huckster’s charm?
  — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• One day the messiah was showing off your lobsters; then he was gone, your company stolen, remade and maybe returned, though maybe not.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• The women are mesmerized by Tanner, who styles himself a messiah of sorts.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• Snowden, who once aspired to be a model and is in some quarters regarded as a modern messiah, is the second kind.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• His remark echoed across the media and throughout social media with the idea that the president may see himself as a sort of messiah.
  — Kenneth Singletary, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Much of it hinges on a name — specifically, the titular messiah’s, who is known only as al-Masih.
  — Alejandra Salazar, refinery29.com, 1 Jan. 2020
• Pence was certainly no political messiah, nor did his message enhance the prospects for peace.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• The entirety of the backroom staff chose to walk with Clough, following their messiah to third tier Brighton.
  — SI.com, 29 July 2019
• At the time of Jesus’ execution, there were a dozen of other messiahs active in Judea.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• There's Jesus, the messiah who took on the sins of humanity to redeem his father's creation.
  — Will Nevin, AL.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• Some may believe this is the official beginning of Payam’s life as an indisputable messiah.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 3 Jan. 2020
• But Stoichkov alternated between being the messiah and being a very naughty boy.
  — SI.com, 11 May 2018
• Hoover worried that King, who was widely regarded as the moral leader of the nation, would become the Black messiah.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Jan. 2021
• Those welcoming him to Jerusalem expected a messiah who might overthrow the Romans.
  — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, all but anointed him the messiah.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Over the past few months, some of the most prominent people in AI have fashioned themselves as modern messiahs and their products as deities.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024
• In Ireland, Christ sometimes had the appearance of a second-tier messiah in his own religion.
  — Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
• The Bible speaks of Simon the Sorcerer, another false messiah that tried to buy his way into the apostles.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024
• The theologians of the religion that formed in his name had to contend with the question of the nature and status of their messiah and his relation to the one God.
  — Jerome E. Copulsky, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
• As chronicled through the film, Lee’s followers began to see her as a female messiah while others marked her for persecution.
  — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026
• The former captain of Pakistan’s national cricket team is seen as a messiah by his followers and a demagogue by his critics.
  — Husain Haqqani, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
• At his introductory news conference, a reporter revealed to Harbaugh that others had called him a savior, and yes, even a messiah.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2021