How to Use messenger in a Sentence

messenger

noun
  • They sent a messenger to pick up the package.
  • That's one reasons why the prospect of using Trump as a messenger keeps bubbling up.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 3 June 2021
  • Later, Houchin got a job as a bike messenger, the only woman on the courier crew.
    Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • No wonder it’s the world’s most popular instant messenger.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 12 July 2021
  • Two community tips led to wiretaps of 18 phones and one social media messenger platform.
    James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 2 July 2021
  • An equestrian messenger service, the yam, knit together the whole commonwealth in a relay of posthouses.
    Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
  • WhatsApp was quieter on the Signal front, given that its smaller albeit fast-growing rival is the best secure messenger on the market today.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 19 June 2021
  • First, companies need to build the foundation of trust with customers by picking the right message and messenger to communicate honestly and consistently.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • 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
  • And many books are bought to register the buyer’s approval of the message or the messenger.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Estrogen is a hormone, a chemical messenger that travels through the bloodstream to send information to cells throughout the body.
    Celia Ford, Vox, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Mark Zuckerberg himself led the celebrations when his top messenger surpassed 100 million US users in July.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024

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