Preposition: of

• Satan: Some of them have ugly messengers of Satan, impudent devils haunting them.

• covenant: That is a partial meaning of ' the angel ' , or ' the messenger of the covenant ' .

• god: Muhammad begins to believe he is a messenger of god.

Converse of object

• shoot: Please don't shoot the messenger - we're only passing on our visitors ' advice!

• send: Johnson sent a messenger to inform Wild of what had happened.

• dispatch: Mary put up strong resistance to the idea at first, but gave in on condition that she may dispatch messengers to Scotland.

• dispatch: There are no voices of command from heaven under this seal and no messengers despatched from the throne.

• blame: Are you sure you are not just blaming the messenger?

Adjective modifier

• instant: You're AIM, probably the most popular instant messenger out there.

• intracellular: In this way, the same intracellular messenger, calcium, can be used to control all sorts of things without confusing the cell.

• heavenly: But the heavenly messenger also warned that the child would be a wild man and every man's hand would be against him.

• divine: The collegiality of the divine messengers is a central tenet of Islamic faith.

• swift: So the King sent swift messengers to all parts of the world to summon every evil creature to his aid.

• chemical: The cells themselves produce chemical messengers which call other cells to join them in the immune response.

Modifies a noun

• molecule: Many of these plant molecules interfere with the activity of animal messenger molecules, with their synthesis or physiological activity or destruction.

Noun used with modifier

• msn: Just looking for people to chat to on msn messenger.

• yahoo: The entire text of an email I just received runs Subject: RE: yahoo messenger Don't use it.

• chemical: Effect on the hormone system The endocrine system produces chemical messengers or hormones which have an effect on almost every organ in the body.

• bicycle: Scouts quickly agreed to fill roles as diverse as stretcher-bearers, convoy signallers, firewatchers and bicycle messengers.

• jazz: As one of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers he was also joined by his pianist brother Gap Mangione.