How to Use messenger in a Sentence

messenger

noun
  • They sent a messenger to pick up the package.
  • She was only meant to be a messenger to bring them to me.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And perhaps one of them will be a messenger from the dark world.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2019
  • No, this is f---ing bike messenger Jim.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Any messenger will be able to grab a mic and voice his or her opinion.
    — Sarah Smith, star-telegram, 12 June 2018
  • The answer, so much as there is one, is don’t kill the messenger.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Our messenger should come prepared with a set of clicks that might put the whales at ease.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The only female voice is that of a messenger who brings the news of peace.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 27 May 2018
  • Why are we obsessed as a mob with always killing the messenger?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Most of the time, the issue is not with what was being said but with the messenger.
    — Theara Coleman, theweek, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Still, the public wasn’t ready for even as gentle a messenger as this one.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Don’t tune out the message just because the messenger crossed a line.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Don't tune out the message just because the messenger crossed a line.
    — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Satellite messengers are great, but low-tech tools have their place in a safety kit, too.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The queen is tenderly reaching out to the messenger, as if to a child.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • He's been successful as a messenger in saying that the buck stops with him.
    — ABC News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • There was some irony in Kaczynski’s choice of the mail as his messenger.
    — Simon R. Gardner, The Atlantic, 4 May 2018
  • Some messengers had heard about the lanterns shown in the Old North Church.
    — Kostya Kennedy, Time, 16 Feb. 2026
  • This true thing needed to be said, and when the workplace became the messenger, you got spared.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • That suggests that the problem is not the messenger, but the message.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 23 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • But Coombs was only the messenger.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
  • It’s made of cells called neurons that act like tiny messengers, sending signals to the rest of your body.
    — Steven Lautzenheiser, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Oumuamua, which means first messenger in the language of the islands.
    — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2019
  • Many refused to hear the message and condemned the messenger.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 7 June 2020
  • 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
  • Or the price of Pony Express messengers with the price of sending an email?
    — Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
  • While no one action will prevent all these tragedies, becoming a messenger of peace will help.
    — William Lambers, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026

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