How to Use deliverance in a Sentence

deliverance

noun
  • She prayed for deliverance as the famine got worse.
  • Anna seeks a deliverance of sorts through her own act of refusal.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Spann thanked God for deliverance and for the health of those who survived.
    — Holly Meyer, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • His deliverance from this nightmare flew less than two hundred feet above him.
    — Cassidy Randall, Time, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Part of him almost seeks that deliverance of death to get out of this existence.
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Has Clark gone through a looking glass that’s going to lead him to a deliverance?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 May 2026
  • For those who are fasting, iftar is a daily deliverance after the long hours of hunger and thirst.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But then there’s the satiny tenderness in her voice, the sense of real joy, the subtle hint of deliverance.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2019
  • For many Americans, the right to travel can be a kind of deliverance.
    — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • My children seem to understand, already, that food can be a deliverance of love.
    — Hannah Selinger, Bon Appétit, 2 July 2021
  • The well-being of the victim and deliverance of justice are paramount, of course.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Thousands of activists in a party looking for deliverance rise to their feet.
    — John H. Richardson, Esquire, 10 Aug. 2010
  • The album, for its part, told the story of an artist stretching toward deliverance.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The tracks performed touch on such themes as faith, love, loss, and a longing for peace or deliverance, for change and renewal.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2022
  • For right-wing voters, this was a deliverance from the Oslo debacle.
    — Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But there’s comfort and even a kind of peaceful deliverance in the stirring closing images of a film that stays with you.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In the throes of deliverance, the demon-tormented might bite staffers’ fingers and hands and need to be restrained.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • But one man, Nahshon, walked into the waves up to his nose, believing deliverance would follow.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Then, on Tuesday, came what appeared to be an out-of-the-blue act of deliverance from Denver.
    — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The first few episodes are painful viewing, cycling June through hoping for deliverance to seeing those hopes dashed and back again in record time.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 4 May 2021
  • Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • At the time of his deliverance, Repp was sick with typhus and weighed 69 pounds, and most of his family was no longer alive.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Fame is perhaps this tower, an ultimate entrapment in the self that is also a deliverance from it.
    — Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • To Franco, however, the sight of his water truck is deliverance, proof that God is good.
    — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • When his many debts and checkered past start to catch up with him, Doyle encounters a kindred spirit who may hold the key to his deliverance.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Mayors of many cities in states where days of prayer have not been proclaimed also called upon people of faith to ask for deliverance from the pandemic.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Some in cardinal and gold waited for deliverance, as if it was assured for USC.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025
  • During this long passage about writing, Proust is, step-by-step, forging the original soul of his book and, at the same time, his own deliverance.
    — William Benton, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2023
  • In some currents of Buddhism, humans alone have the potential for deliverance from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
    — John Gray, The New York Review of Books, 22 Mar. 2018
  • And that deliverance comes courtesy of Rodman, who has scored the go-ahead goal in three of the Americans’ four games in France.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024

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