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How to use message in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Message means a communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed. Example: “We've just received an urgent message from the President.”

Examples of message by meaning

nounA communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.

  • We've just received an urgent message from the President.
  • He received a message telling him to update his laptop.

nounAn errand to a shop, a shopping expedition; an item of shopping; (in plural) groceries.

  • On week days he did messages between the house in Carysfort Avenue and those shops in the main street of the town with which the family dealt.1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
  • Look other people in the shop who want message.1952, Sam Selvon, A Brighter Sun

nounAn underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.

  • The main message of the novel is that time heals all wounds.
  • But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023, page 55

verbTo send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone.

  • Just message me for directions.
  • I messaged her about the concert.

verbTo send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging.

  • She messaged me the information yesterday.
  • Please message the final report by fax.

verbTo send a message or messages; to be capable of sending messages.

  • We've implemented a new messaging service.
  • The runaway computer program was messaging non-stop.

More sentences with message

  • All messages on this platform are doubly encrypted to increase security.From the entry encrypt
  • I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news.From the entry bombard
  • The protesters were very vocal in their message to the mayor.From the entry vocal
  • She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.From the entry melt
  • We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.From the entry hook
  • During silence a message came to me that there was that of God in every person.From the entry silence
  • The prisoner knocked out a message on the wall for the prisoner in the adjoining cell.From the entry knock out
  • I went invisible so that my ex-girlfriend wouldn't send me instant messages.From the entry invisible
  • They just left, but you may leave a message at the desk.From the entry just
  • I tried to send you a message, but you’ve blocked me!From the entry block
  • I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.From the entry story
  • I didn’t mean to push the boundaries by sending my boss a message on Saturday night.From the entry boundary
  • Message latency is much more of an issue on a WAN than on a LAN.From the entry wan
  • The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out.From the entry cipher
  • The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.From the entry cipher
  • The content of the message should be orthogonal to the means of its delivery.From the entry orthogonal
  • The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.From the entry digest
  • The first message transmitted by telegraph in the United States was WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.From the entry telegraph
  • The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.From the entry improve
  • I was eldered for directly responding to someone else's message in meeting for worship.From the entry elder
  • The medium considered herself a conduit for messages from the spirit world.From the entry conduit
  • The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.From the entry decode
  • Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.From the entry band-aid
  • Our nightly computer backups include the archival of old e-mail messages.From the entry archival
  • Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.From the entry cohere
  • The subversiveness of his message was lost due to its commercialism.From the entry subversiveness
  • Users of an instant messaging service are presentities that may show themselves as online, offline, or away.From the entry presentity
  • It took several replayings before I could write down the entire recorded message.From the entry replaying

Meaning of message

  1. noun A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
  2. noun An errand.
  3. noun An errand to a shop, a shopping expedition; an item of shopping; (in plural) groceries.

Full definition of message

Questions about message in a sentence

How do you use message in a sentence?
Message is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We've just received an urgent message from the President.”
What is a short sentence with message?
“Just message me for directions.”
What does message mean?
Message means a communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: message (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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