How to Use envoy in a Sentence

envoy

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  • 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
  • Twice, the mutinous leaders have refused to meet envoys from the West African bloc.
    — Elian Peltier, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Enrique Mora said in his meeting with the Chinese envoy.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 29 May 2023
  • 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
  • The former envoy remains listed as state councilor on the State Council’s website.
    — Time, 26 July 2023
  • In addition, a host of patriarchs joined 125 cardinals in the seats to the side of the altar, and the Russian Orthodox Church sent its foreign envoy.
    — Nicole Winfield, The Enquirer, 6 Jan. 2023
  • On the contrary, there is a very able American envoy, Amos Hochstein, the president's adviser, who is trying to go back and forth between us and the Lebanese.
    — CBS News, 22 Sep. 2024
  • For our climate envoy, ‘saving the planet’ requires a massive hero complex, a few egotists, and a lot of tax dollars.
    — Andrew Follett, National Review, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Brussels suspended funding to the group while the probe was ongoing, but lifted the hold in June after the case was closed, said a spokesperson for the EU’s envoy to the Palestinians.
    — Dov Lieber and Aaron Boxerman, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
  • However, the State Department’s former anti-Semitism envoy is on a mission to change that, state by state.
    — Mike Wagenheim, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2022
  • The visible role of senior-most U.S. leaders can strengthen the hand of U.S. envoys on the ground in the region, who must be better staffed and resourced to match the complexity of the crisis.
    — Johnnie Carson, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
  • Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, has mentioned the issue in speeches.
    — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2022
  • American envoys have met multiple times with the Taliban as well.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune Asia, 5 June 2024
  • Yemen's warring sides agree to nationwide truce for the first time in years Yemen's warring sides have agreed to a nationwide truce for the first time in the country's seven-year conflict, the UN envoy said late last week.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Beijing loans pandas to more than 20 countries as envoys of friendship, which is at times seen as a barometer of relations.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024

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