How to Use messenger in a Sentence

messenger

noun
  • 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
  • At all times, Trump is both the best and worst messenger for his cause.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 13 July 2019
  • And perhaps one of them will be a messenger from the dark world.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2019
  • Most of the time, the issue is not with what was being said but with the messenger.
    — Theara Coleman, theweek, 11 Sep. 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
  • These days, at age 45, Rehm hasn’t been a full-time bike messenger for a while.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 3 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • They are supposed to be the messengers, not the lawgivers.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Yet Bush may not be the best messenger for this rebuke.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 4 May 2021
  • That suggests that the problem is not the messenger, but the message.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Don't tune out the message just because the messenger crossed a line.
    — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Don’t tune out the message just because the messenger crossed a line.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • This is what the lab is exploring now: who is the messenger?
    — Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd, sent a messenger to request a lock of hair, and a tuft was clipped from the head for her.
    — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • This true thing needed to be said, and when the workplace became the messenger, you got spared.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Still, the public wasn’t ready for even as gentle a messenger as this one.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Why are we obsessed as a mob with always killing the messenger?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Compared to the original, both the message and the messenger look more flawed.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The Greeks saw it as a small harp that Mercury the messenger of the gods created out of an old tortoise shell.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • As ads for secure messenger Signal go, this one is hard to beat.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Public health experts said one of the essential parts of controlling a measles outbreak is to partner with trusted messengers on the ground to spread the word that vaccines are safe.
    — Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 13 Mar. 2025

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