How to Use messenger in a Sentence

messenger

noun
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  • 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
  • Hermes was a known as a messenger to the gods in the Ancient Greek pantheon.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2024
  • 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
  • This is what the lab is exploring now: who is the messenger?
    — Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Drains both the messengers and their messages of power.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
  • 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
  • And even when the agency’s predictions are right, folks often want to blame the messenger.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024
  • On Google’s store, the app claims to help users personalize the theme of their default messenger.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 23 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • This is worse than shooting the messenger for being the bearer of bad tidings.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • That’s the exact right mindset and the perfect message — from the perfect messenger.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024

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