How to Use envoy in a Sentence

envoy

noun
  • But with little progress since then, the top U.S. envoy said this week that prospects had soured.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
  • Em is sent by her mother as an envoy to plead her case.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Twice, the mutinous leaders have refused to meet envoys from the West African bloc.
    — Elian Peltier, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Biden’s special envoy to Haiti, Daniel Foote, also quit over the Haiti flights.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • But the future of the climate envoy role in the United States is uncertain.
    — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • John Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy, is to attend in Biden’s place.
    — Aamer Madhani and Seung Min Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Steven Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, has prior ties to oil-rich nations in the area.
    — Justin Porter, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The speech sparks protests by Muslims around the world and causes the recall of the Moroccan envoy to the Vatican.
    — CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
  • There has so far been no word on when France may return its envoy to Canberra.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The deaths were announced as a U.S. envoy tried to persuade the Israelis to scale back their campaign sooner rather than later.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The envoy expressed hope regarding the more than seven-year war in the Arab world’s poorest country.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In Vienna, Moscow’s envoy to the talks sought to spread the blame for Friday’s suspension.
    — Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg.com, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Jolie has been a United Nations special envoy for refugees since 2011.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 1 May 2022
  • China’s special envoy to the Middle East urged Israel to restart peace talks on the basis of the two-state solution.
    — Clarence Leong, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Trump's envoy to the Middle East, businessman Steve Witkoff, played a large role in first reaching the deal earlier this month.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The State Department later tapped her as a women’s health envoy.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Ukraine’s envoy explains to NR the long-term strategy for holding the Russian regime to account.
    — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Mideast envoy, plans to return to the region tomorrow to push for a new truce.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Junior ministers, the solicitor general, and the U.K.’s trade envoy to Kenya were among the first out the door.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 July 2022
  • Arab and American envoys have voiced hopes for their diplomatic push to reach a cease-fire-for-hostage-release deal.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Aidid sign a cease-fire brokered by US envoy Robert Oakley.
    — CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Since Trump left the White House, Grenell has been an envoy for him abroad, meeting far-right leaders in foreign capitals.
    — Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Argentina, home to one of the world's largest shale reserves, also pulled its envoys out merely three days in to the conference.
    — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Enrique Mora said in his meeting with the Chinese envoy.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 29 May 2023
  • The country is now on the verge of a civil war, according to the departing UN special envoy on Myanmar.
    — Russell Goldman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Kerry was then secretary of state and is now Biden’s climate envoy.
    — Time, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Russia may be pondering return to grain deal, a U.S. envoy says.
    — USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The subprefecture of some remote French region may not be the dream of a polished polyglot envoy.
    — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2022
  • As Kerry closed out his trip earlier this week, the climate envoy, too, seemed hopeful.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 23 July 2023
  • Loss and damage means two things for small island states, says Sabra Noordeen, special envoy on climate change for the Maldives.
    — Jocelyn Timperley, Wired, 16 Dec. 2021

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