deity

in a sentence

And that's why later, when long-held family secrets came to light, when I noticed that this deity who asked only for perfection was himself less than perfect, that he was in fact not a deity at all, well, I wasn't able to shrug it off.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

I spent hours pacing in profitless conjecture: how I might try to suborn an infernal deity to pluck a handful of gray asphodels or scoop some of Styx's waves, or else how I might build a raft and sail it to the underworld's edge, then use Odysseus' trick to lure the ghosts out and catch a bit of their smoke.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

She had been living in my mind like this for years, a stone deity of contempt.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

It's not like you could change the birth date of a deity.  (source) Kiera Cass, The Selection, 2012

Mindful of being a teenaged upstart in the company of such seasoned track deities as Jesse Owens and Glenn Cunningham, Louie curbed his coltish impulses and began growing a mustache.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Reverend Sykes then called on the Lord to bless the sick and the suffering, a procedure no different from our church practice, except Reverend Sykes directed the Deity's attention to several specific cases.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

From here I could work my way up to scaring farm animals, then demigods, monsters, and minor deities.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle, 2016

It happened during the annual ceremony which was held in honour of the earth deity.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

Now, transfigured—cold and glorious like deities with their disguises flung off—it was as if they'd flown through the roof and into the sky to assume their true, celestial homes.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

By officially endorsing Jesus as the Son of God, Constantine turned Jesus into a deity who existed beyond the scope of the human world, an entity whose power was unchallengeable.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The forgotten deities of dead cities brandished their broken thunderbolts at the sky as Dany rode her silver past their feet.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs.  (source) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937

Then you can grow up bothered by "neither ghosts nor deities."†  (source) Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1975