How to Use emissary in a Sentence

emissary

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  • She acted as the president's personal emissary to the union leaders.
  • The show went so far as to report the Fire sent emissaries to Madrid to close the sale.
    — José Luis Sánchez Pando, chicagotribune.com, 6 May 2018
  • This Martin is an emissary from the past and a warning for the present.
    — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Traxler grew up in Houston, Texas, a son of Chabad emissaries.
    — Judith Segaloff, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The clerks do not have to confirm that the voter is disabled or ask the emissary for ID.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Berlin sent an emissary to advise the Japanese on the way to proceed with the killing.
    — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Pelosi has used her position to be an emissary for the U.S. on the global stage.
    — Eileen Ng, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • This wasn't the first time that emissaries of the two companies met each other.
    — Joshua Quittner, WIRED, 1 Apr. 1998
  • Would a Putin emissary knife him in a dark alley somewhere?
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Comets would thus be the default emissaries from other stars.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 27 June 2018
  • Or, more precisely, to the three-faced demon Baphomet, one of his emissaries.
    — Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Yet, as the sole emissary of her fictional world, Jansson felt the need to be gracious.
    — Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
  • In both cities, Chabad emissaries have opened their doors to welcome Jewish fans.
    — Dovid Margolin, Jewish Journal, 28 June 2018
  • Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 8 May 2024
  • And this is — Apple had Jimmy Iovine as sort of their emissary to the music business.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 12 June 2018
  • Putin’s emissary turned out to be a banker, or, more accurately, a banker-spy.
    — Luke Harding, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The Almighty wishes to intervene – and calls upon Moses to act as his emissary.
    — Robert F. Barsky, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022
  • China watchers point to Ross’s rocky record as a Trump emissary to Beijing.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 25 May 2018
  • The idea of emissaries bringing peace lingers on in schematic maps of the 21st-century maritime Silk Road.
    — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Gone was the wartime leader of the early weeks who sent emissaries to talks in Belarus and Turkey in the hope that reason might prevail.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The Snyders were Dorothy and her companions—the Wizard’s emissaries.
    — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • So has his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who has been an emissary to Ukraine on the matter.
    — NBC News, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The dream of such a visit seems as remote as the stars themselves—unless, perhaps, the stars somehow send emissaries to us.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 May 2018
  • And the Trump team’s best relations in the world are with the Arab actors sending emissaries to the Bahrain conference (plus Israel).
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 28 June 2019
  • Khan sent emissaries to the city of Merv in Turkmenistan demanding tribute and the pick of the city’s most beautiful women.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 8 Dec. 2017
  • That 1840 document was signed on the British side by emissaries of Queen Victoria.
    — Nick Perry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Zhou was acting as an emissary for the leader of China, Mao Zedong.
    — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • Yarish proved to be the ideal emissary with his bushy mustache and zeal for dangling fistfuls of drippy springy kelp in front of the camera.
    — Carol Leonetti Dannhauser, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2022
  • One day, emissaries of Kagame came to Rusesabagina’s cell.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 July 2024
  • The long blond hair and elfin features are meant to trick Celebrimbor into thinking that this new arrival is an emissary of the godlike Valar, rather than their adversary.
    — EW.com, 6 Aug. 2024

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