How to Use deliverance in a Sentence

deliverance

noun
Definition of deliverancenext
Synonyms for deliverancenext
  • She prayed for deliverance as the famine got worse.
  • Per Luke 24:7, on the third-day post deliverance into the hands of the sinful, the child of God must rise again.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Spann thanked God for deliverance and for the health of those who survived.
    — Holly Meyer, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Advent is a time of waiting for the hope of deliverance.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
  • But then there’s the satiny tenderness in her voice, the sense of real joy, the subtle hint of deliverance.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2019
  • At the time of his deliverance, Repp was sick with typhus and weighed 69 pounds, and most of his family was no longer alive.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The well-being of the victim and deliverance of justice are paramount, of course.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2017
  • For many Americans, the right to travel can be a kind of deliverance.
    — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Part of him almost seeks that deliverance of death to get out of this existence.
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Bauerlein had hailed Trump’s rise as a deliverance from the status quo.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 8 Feb. 2017
  • A rest night in December could lead to great deliverance in June.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 4 Jan. 2017
  • Anna seeks a deliverance of sorts through her own act of refusal.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The tracks performed touch on such themes as faith, love, loss, and a longing for peace or deliverance, for change and renewal.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The tears are his person, his being, and his deliverance.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • For the men in the Colombian safe house, the arrival of the muscular American felt like deliverance.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2020
  • For those who are fasting, iftar is a daily deliverance after the long hours of hunger and thirst.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The first few episodes are painful viewing, cycling June through hoping for deliverance to seeing those hopes dashed and back again in record time.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 4 May 2021
  • To Franco, however, the sight of his water truck is deliverance, proof that God is good.
    — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • For right-wing voters, this was a deliverance from the Oslo debacle.
    — Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But Chelsea Fields, who has performed at more than 50 major league sporting events, is adamant about standing proud throughout the deliverance of the song.
    — Nicole Pajer, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2017
  • A while after that, Josh Manson had the puck in the very same position, with the clock disappearing and deliverance on his stick.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 10 May 2017
  • His deliverance from this nightmare flew less than two hundred feet above him.
    — Cassidy Randall, Time, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Make Space for Relief and Joy The same teenagers who feel deeply upset about missing school and their peers in one moment may express delight and deliverance in the next.
    — Lisa Damour, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020
  • But one man, Nahshon, walked into the waves up to his nose, believing deliverance would follow.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • With Joe Biden’s poll numbers holding strong, my wife and I cautiously look forward to Nov. 3 as a day of deliverance.
    — Ron Grossman, Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
  • During this long passage about writing, Proust is, step-by-step, forging the original soul of his book and, at the same time, his own deliverance.
    — William Benton, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Thompson united the Christian image of the cross, a place of unspeakable suffering on the road to deliverance, with the gruesome specter of the lynching tree.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • My children seem to understand, already, that food can be a deliverance of love.
    — Hannah Selinger, Bon Appétit, 2 July 2021
  • Word of Deliverance services have aired on TV and radio and are available for viewing on the internet at pscp.tv/wodom.
    — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 21 May 2017
  • In some currents of Buddhism, humans alone have the potential for deliverance from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
    — John Gray, The New York Review of Books, 22 Mar. 2018

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