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
• Arjun Viswanathan stood on the street, his hands folded, eyes fixed on the idol of the Hindu deity Ganesh.
  — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 17 Dec. 2022
• Instead, saints with the iconographic power of Mayan deities lined the walls.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
• The universe of the show starts with a deity called the Creator who creates the titular Wheel of Time.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
• There were others, of course, but for those of us who played soccer, Pelé was a deity.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
• It’s called the Norn cell, named after the Norse deities who were believed to control human fate.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• In other words, a temple not to deities but to the lives of everyday people.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 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
• But Wei-Chen — the son of a deity, and secretly new to human life — is nonplussed.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 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
• Experts think the nine-inch-tall sculpture depicts Anat, the Canaanite deity of love and war.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2022
• 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
• Daytime gods evoke the sun; the moon goddess, a nighttime deity, is sometimes a wife and sometimes a mother to the sun.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• The idea of the chef as deity goes beyond the celebrification of the profession.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• With the sea and mountains in the near distance, the scene surely could have been mistaken as a nod to the Roman deity Neptune.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 26 May 2023
• Who Shapes the Sacred Land, is a deity of both creation and destruction.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2022
• In ancient Persia, the event marked the birthday of the Sun King Mithra, a mythological deity.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The month of May is named after the Roman goddess Maia, a nature deity.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• George Strait might be a megastar, but in Austin, and nearly everywhere else, Willie is a deity.
  — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• There is no deity except Him, the One who sustains Himself and sustains all of His creation.
  — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 19 May 2022
• The fact that this statue depicts a male god is also unusual, as most of the others are of female deities like Venus, the goddess of love.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• One team named it after the Greek deity Gaia, primordial mother of Earth and all life, and her son Enceladus.
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• While in ancient Greece and Rome, the stone was associated with lunar deities.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
• Even frozen in a photograph, their walks emanates the confidence of people who know they are worshiped like deities.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2023
• Plus, Goddess Lakshmi (the female deity of wealth) is worshipped through prayer on this day as well.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2022
• But along their journey to the castle, Sebastián begins to doubt his role as a Seer and realizes the error of his ways — the unseen creatures are evil, not deities.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 18 July 2023
• Hell hath no comedy like a news anchor (and former deity) scorned.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• He’s known for a wearing a monkey mask in the ring, which doubles as a tribute to Hanuman, the Hindu deity who once led an army of simians against the ancient forced of evil.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
• Their mother claimed to be a deity, her estranged husband wrote in divorce papers.
  — Rebecca Boone, ajc, 1 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024