How to Use client state in a Sentence

client state

noun

• Their client state of Syria is no more.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
• Afghan client state marked the limits of American hard power.
  — Jeremy Page, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
• In other words, Britain is a client state, albeit a senior one, with certain privileges.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
• In Judea, which had recently lost its full sovereignty and become a client state of Rome, the year was… who even knows?
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
• Long-term, Moscow wants a reliable client state in the Middle East.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 6 Apr. 2018
• Assad’s flight to Moscow following the swift collapse of his regime means more than just the loss of a client state for the Kremlin.
  — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
• Belarus is clearly complicit in the attack on Ukraine, and a model client state for the Russians.
  — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 28 Feb. 2022
• Since 2020, Belarus has been firmly in the client state category.
  — Jason Fields, The Week, 22 Mar. 2022
• The Kremlin will fight to retain influence in Syria but the loss of its client state deals another blow to Putin.
  — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
• That policy, which may have pleased America’s client states in the region at the time, was a product of post-Cold War hubris on our part.
  — Andrew Exum, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• Trump already has ample ways to profit from office, including from stock trading with the benefit of inside knowledge and by accepting gifts from client states.
  — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
• Yemen is a client state of its rich neighbor Saudi Arabia, but is locked in an internal war with Houthi rebels supported by Iran.
  — Ed Lotterman, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2024
• That planted the seeds of the collapse of the Soviet Union by showing its client states that their sponsor was unable to help them militarily.
  — WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023
• The hunter education marketplace remains lucrative because once a vendor acquires a client state agency, their customers come along essentially for free.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2024
• Cuba was a client state of the Soviet Union and was under diplomatic and economic embargo by the United States for decades.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2018
• The country was then a client state of Nazi Germany, and Jews, including Herz’s family, were banned from attending the cinema.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2020
• As China has risen in global influence, Russia’s leadership have resented the prospect of becoming a client state of Beijing.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 16 Mar. 2022
• The danger of Qatar evolving into a full-fledged Iranian client state is vastly overblown; this is not something that the Al-Thani family would find palatable.
  — WSJ, 7 Aug. 2017
• But signs of what the future may hold in the CAR, one of the organization’s first client states and its laboratory on the continent, are beginning to emerge in Bangui.
  — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• For more than 60 years, pre-revolutionary Cuba endured independence without sovereignty as an American client state.
  — Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
• Some American officials worry that China’s goal in the Solomons is to create a client state, securing deepwater ports and satellite communication sites.
  — Damien Cave Matthew Abbott, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• That requires power projection, so China has turned a dozen countries around the world into client states through debt peonage, collateralizing abusive loans with concessions for military bases and deep-water ports.
  — Nicholas Phillips, National Review, 5 Sep. 2019
• Most participants are traditional client states or regional allies of the Soviet Union and now Russia, and many have non-democratic or even dictatorial regimes.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2019
• Even in China’s client state of Cambodia, there is simmering discontent in society over the influx of Chinese investment in land purchases, gambling meccas, and construction projects.
  — David Shambaugh, Foreign Affairs, 17 Dec. 2020
• His ties with the Nigerian government were obvious, which meant so, too, were his secondary ties with the Chinese government, who through economic subsidies and military alliances had turned Nigeria into a partner, if not a client state.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• Above all, China fears that its unpredictable and often aggressive client state could spark a military conflict with South Korea and the United States, potentially dragging Beijing into a second Korean War.
  — Shuxian Luo, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2025