How to Use manna in a Sentence

manna

noun
Definition of mannanext
Synonyms for mannanext
  • Your generous gift was manna from heaven.
  • To them, the fresh episodes felt like manna from heaven.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
  • In fields where new data rarely comes to light, the Scrolls have seemed to be manna from heaven.
    — Patrick T. Reardon, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
  • And yet, for Trump’s opponents, the tweets are like #manna.
    — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
  • But that request was manna from heaven, a gift from the basketball gods, and the team knew it.
    — Chris Mannix, SI.com, 12 July 2019
  • Which made the Longhorns’ late-season surge feel like manna from the basketball gods.
    — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • For a bighorn fan like Hughson, this is manna from heaven.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
  • And the pool’s water felt like manna from heaven, a respite from the midday sun’s searing rays.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Next, the team captured 12 wild koalas from a manna gum forest in Cape Otway.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The lines echoed the Exodus story, how the Lord saved the Israelites in the desert by sending them quail and manna from heaven.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Ohtani is manna from heaven, but the Angels can’t be content with just him.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Doesn’t a big star at a prime position drop out of the sky like manna from heaven and change fortunes for years?
    — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 July 2017
  • To a sharp-eared central banker, that doesn’t sound like an all-clear to let the monetary manna flow freely and give up the campaign against bad debt.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
  • So that is the only thing that actually occurred at the time that manna for was with the Trump campaign.
    — Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018
  • So God provided manna in the wilderness, and the wanderers ate their fill.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
  • What message and manna from heaven are falling into your mind and mouth?
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2022
  • If carrying a plastic jar freaks out the weight weenie in your life, Soom now puts this manna (and other flavors) in one-ounce packs.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The tragic thing is that near all the stripped manna gum trees, there was plenty of another kind of eucalyptus.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The characins feed on manna from heaven – insects that fall into the water from overhanging plants.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2012
  • Along the way, someone tried to feed Moses peanut butter crackers, but Moses did not want a golf tournament’s manna from heaven.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 10 May 2023
  • Each person was instructed to collect enough — and only enough — of this manna for their daily need.
    — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
  • In economic terms for nursery growers, the tree was manna from heaven.
    — Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
  • And, like manna from heaven, now the world’s largest battery backup facility is up and running in San Diego.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Not all the old folks have died off yet, and even among the young there are a few iconoclasts who reject this technological manna from heaven.
    — Tony Long, WIRED, 23 Nov. 2006
  • For Safe Haven, brother Terry has turned out to be marketing manna from heaven.
    — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Lena Dunham!—are manna for media heaven, but this one was special order.
    — Laura Brown, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2016
  • But unless manna from heaven can power Madrid hospital rooms and Frankfurt e-bikes, a ramp up in solar and wind won’t do.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The center’s director and founder, Teresa Coleman Wash, says the funding has been roughly akin to manna from heaven.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2021
  • But this excess manna quickly rotted and filled with maggots.
    — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
  • The hedge fund’s manna was slowly being frittered away, a casualty yet again of Dalio’s latest predictions of trouble for the global economy.
    — Rob Copeland, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023

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