Example sentences for: messiah

How can you use “messiah” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This kicked in after Jesus was crucified, a moment they crisply refer to as "Messiah cut off."

  • At the Grammys on Wednesday (CBS, 8 p.m.), expect Lauryn Hill to be treated like the musical Messiah with her 10 nominations.

  • This was above a picture of members of Our Lady's Choral Society in pink raincoats and waterproof hats trying to sing Handel's Messiah outdoors in a hail shower.

  • For all his accomplishments, Herod was nevertheless hated by his subjects; he taxed, he tortured, and he ordered the massacre of male Jewish infants in an attempt to do away with the heralded Messiah.

  • Consider Jones' pièce de résistance : On "one particular evening," in response to "his inner demons," and more specifically to the Rockefeller Foundation's rejection of a grant application, Kinsey allegedly hanged himself by the hand and balls from an overhead pipe "long enough for this self-appointed Messiah of the sexually despised to experience much pain and suffering, precisely as he had intended."


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