How to Use messiah in a Sentence
messiah
noun- They thought the new principal was the messiah the school had been hoping for.
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But back to the year of the three Messiahs.
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Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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In the end, as Walzer observes, there can be no messiahs in a democracy.
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Austin Sarat,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2026
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How to tell a true from a false prophet, the real Christ, returned in glory, from a dime-store messiah with a huckster’s charm?
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Michael Robbins,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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In Ireland, Christ sometimes had the appearance of a second-tier messiah in his own religion.
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Literary Hub,
8 May 2026
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As chronicled through the film, Lee’s followers began to see her as a female messiah while others marked her for persecution.
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Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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His manifest talent, plus a web of fortunate connections, soon carried him to London’s Royal College of Music, where seasonal Messiahs all over the British map were his bread and butter.
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Matthew Gurewitsch,
Air Mail,
13 Dec. 2025
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Imbued in the theological underpinnings of the Abrahamic traditions is the archetype of a false messiah who appears near the end times, called Dajjal in Islam, Antichrist in Christianity, who for some will seem a saviour, but for others will herald destruction.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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