How to Use interlocutor in a Sentence

interlocutor

noun

• In the past Oman has played the role of interlocutor between Israel and the Arab world.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020
• Oman for years has served as a key interlocutor between Iran and the West.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• The great virtue of his book is that Baram lets his interlocutors speak for themselves.
  — Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• One by one, the interlocutors approached the would-be complainants to hear their plights.
  — Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
• Oman long has served as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.
  — Jon Gambrell The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 16 June 2024
• Oman long has served as an interlocutor between both Iran and the Houthis during the war.
  — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• When drafting your next email, be sure to check in on your interlocutor first and then get down to business.
  — Loubna Noureddin, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• The trip was widely interpreted as a means for Abe, one of the few leaders with close ties to both the US and Iran, to serve as an interlocutor.
  — Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 13 June 2019
• Ben Whishaw, shot in black and white, says his name is Arthur Rimbaud and speaks in aphorisms to some unknown interlocutor.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
• The set of her jaw is as expressive as her eyes, which can slice right through an errant interlocutor.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2020
• His dark eyes, which don’t register delight in the way that his slow smile does, rarely stray from his interlocutor.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• McGurk has served as the administration's chief interlocutor in the on-and-off talks.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2024
• All three leaders have been key interlocutors in efforts to tamp down tensions in the Middle East and bring an end to the Israel-Hamas war.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Apr. 2025
• My interlocutors had a range of views on this, but in general the Gazans were skeptical.
  — Rachel Lu, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• One of the learnings here is that developers should think of LLMs as a language interlocutor, rather than a source of truth.
  — Sridhar Ramaswamy, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
• Not to be outdone, one of Kate’s interlocutors makes her case by dragging a massive map of unclear origin across the floor to make a point.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
• Thus the thunderings from Ms. May – and her EU interlocutors, too.
  — Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2017
• Alice’s chief interlocutor is her brother Japhy (Justin Kirk), who floats in and out of the play with spectral freedom.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Desmond gives Keiran a chance to get revenge by spilling his guts about the insurgency, but Keiran’s hate for his interlocutor stands in his way.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2024
• Voss tells you to mirror your interlocutor’s body language, and to parrot her last few words as a question.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• Ray is spindly, with a mass of gray curls, rimless glasses, and the slight, kindly stoop of a man who makes an effort to meet his interlocutor halfway.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• Each of the paintings has an interlocutor: a sculpture belonging to a series that Rose calls Loops.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
• Egypt, a key interlocutor with Hamas, is a key target of US diplomacy.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 May 2021
• Those who have spoken in-depth with him over the years describe a difficult interlocutor.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Campbell’s interlocutor goes on to ask what brought about his collapse.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
• Oman, a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, has long served as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.
  — Matthew Lee and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025
• Nadia addresses these thoughts to an interlocutor who is nowhere to be seen.
  — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
• However, one of our roles is to be the interlocutor with law enforcement.
  — Eric Berger, sun-sentinel.com, 15 June 2021
• Be straightforward, keep to the point and make sure your interlocutor understands you.
  — Alex Lutskiy, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• But a wide gulf in expectations exists between Russia, Ukraine and their US interlocutors.
  — Anna Chernova, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025