How to Use messiah in a Sentence

messiah

noun
Definition of messiahnext
  • They thought the new principal was the messiah the school had been hoping for.
  • The Panthers fired one. King, more than anyone else, fit Hoover’s fear of a Black messiah.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • In a bizarre moment near the end of the dinner, Parnas and Fruman compare Trump to the messiah.
    — NBC News, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Over the years, the Congress leader has attempted to style himself a messiah of the poor.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • This time around, the drama began early in 2016 with Messi, one of the all-time greats and the anointed messiah.
    — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 16 June 2018
  • The entirety of the backroom staff chose to walk with Clough, following their messiah to third tier Brighton.
    — SI.com, 29 July 2019
  • As a high school junior, he was cast as a basketball messiah.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Sometimes, a man goes into the desert, becomes a messiah, and ends up a goddamn monster.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 28 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Only a messiah, after all, can claim to have monopoly control of the truth.
    — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Since Mandela, South Africans have liked the idea of messiah figure coming in and saving them, but the issues in the country are bigger than one man alone can solve.
    — Rachel Elbaum, NBC News, 6 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • The novel concludes with the birth of Matthew and Kautilya’s child, a multiracial messiah who might deliver freedom to all the oppressed peoples of the world.
    — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • A messiah is someone who takes on the pain and sins and suffering of us all, and bears that with great nobility and honor and never complains about it.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 4 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many of them probably will reappear when their messiah re-summons them.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2019
  • These beliefs included the return of exiled Jews to their homeland and the appearance of a messiah who would resurrect the righteous dead and usher in a new era of peace.
    — Liya Rechtman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
  • Those welcoming him to Jerusalem expected a messiah who might overthrow the Romans.
    — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Sun Myung Moon later became a self-professed messiah and started the Unification Church in 1954.
    — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Some may believe this is the official beginning of Payam’s life as an indisputable messiah.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, all but anointed him the messiah.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • In the 1700s, Eve Frank and her father converted thousands to a religion that worshipped Eve as the only female messiah in history.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Arsenal fans are trying to avoid criticising Emery after pleading for so long to have Arsene Wenger removed and a new messiah brought in.
    — SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Unlike a lot of self-help gurus, yogis and crackpot messiahs who rose to prominence in the early-1970s age of weird, Geller endured and his cultural impact proved both singular and lasting.
    — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • But Stoichkov alternated between being the messiah and being a very naughty boy.
    — SI.com, 11 May 2018

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