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