How to Use deity in a Sentence

deity

noun

• Sure, this is a rock deity who doesn't need to do this stuff.
  — USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• All five worshipped the same deity as The One and as each other.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 12 Feb. 2020
• The names of those four deities are included in the chant, along with the name of a fifth deity, the lawsuit says.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
• The deity in this case is the one who has dominion over the lottery.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
• It is also known as the festival of deities and demons.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
• The Celts believed deities would play tricks on humans the night of the festival.
  — Staff Author, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2024
• This is Pan, minor Greek deity, denizen of fields, flocks and forests.
  — William A. Wallace, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Fujikane tells the tale of a Hawaiian chief who falls in love with Poli’ahu, the deity of the snow on Mauna Kea.
  — Crystal Paul, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Arjun Viswanathan stood on the street, his hands folded, eyes fixed on the idol of the Hindu deity Ganesh.
  — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 17 Dec. 2022
• Instead, saints with the iconographic power of Mayan deities lined the walls.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
• The universe of the show starts with a deity called the Creator who creates the titular Wheel of Time.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
• Why did the Israelites deserve the love and protection of the deity?
  — Robert Aronson, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
• There were others, of course, but for those of us who played soccer, Pelé was a deity.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
• It’s called the Norn cell, named after the Norse deities who were believed to control human fate.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• In other words, a temple not to deities but to the lives of everyday people.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
• The Oscar winner won't be the only deity around, of course.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• Even movie theaters aren’t immune to the weaponization of Hindu deities.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• In many ancient cultures, the sun was seen as a deity and a source of life that helped the crops grow every season.
  — Elissaveta M. Brandon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
• Built along the lines of a classic British game gun, the Revenant balances, swings, and shoots like it was forged by some smoothbore deity.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 26 Nov. 2019
• But Wei-Chen — the son of a deity, and secretly new to human life — is nonplussed.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
• One Maya deity, Ah Mucen Kab, was worshipped as the god of bees and honey.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
• As the head of the New Gods, deities of modernity, Mr. World is constantly adapting with the times and taking on new forms.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• Instead, use the mind and heart and spirit deity has given you and find your way forward.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
• The Cuban-American is a deity-like legend in the running world.
  — John Canzano | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2019
• Experts think the nine-inch-tall sculpture depicts Anat, the Canaanite deity of love and war.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2022
• The molten pink fabric was draped over a sequin bodice for a look fit for a mythical deity.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
• Daytime gods evoke the sun; the moon goddess, a nighttime deity, is sometimes a wife and sometimes a mother to the sun.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• The idea of the chef as deity goes beyond the celebrification of the profession.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• Hindus believe the deity Ram was born at the site and say the Mughal Emperor Babur built a mosque on top of a temple there.
  — Thalia Beaty, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
• On top of being the planet of communication, Mercury is the only deity able to travel in and out of the Underworld (as per the Roman myth), which deepens our ability to explore hidden truths and unlock mysteries out of reach.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Jan 2025