How to Use negotiation in a Sentence

negotiation

noun

• We need a negotiation between the townspeople and mayor over the site of the new library.
• The college president was against any negotiation with the students.
• She is skilled at negotiation.
• So that was a bit of a negotiation?
  — Nate Sloan, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
• This should be a testy negotiation, but one that results in a new deal.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
• These are all skills that come in handy in a boardroom, on a team, or in any deal negotiation.
  — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2021
• Here’s what all this means for the next few months of budget negotiations.
  — Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2024
• What has each side said about the negotiations?
  — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
• The negotiations were at times tense in the public eye.
  — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
• That will be a negotiation through court.
  — Footwear News, 14 Jan. 2026
• The negotiations are in such despair that the two sides cannot even agree on the basic state of play.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
• The negotiations picked up steam from there.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
• The goal of negotiations is not to reduce pay.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
• There is no negotiation when the government points a gun at your head.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2022
• But that leverage must be proved before any good faith negotiation can take place.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
• Adding the summit to the loop will require more than negotiations with them.
  — John Meyer, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
• Bengals and Bates have been in negotiation process for some time now.
  — The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2022
• The issue could come up again during the next round of negotiations.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
• The state of those extension negotiations has been hard to pin down.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2023
• When the guild negotiations happen this year, these broadsides will be just the first shots.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
• Ideally for both sides, this negotiation is smoother than the last time around.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• So to get to what Kim wants, right, which is this negotiation with freeze, sanctions go away.
  — CBS News, 9 Feb. 2022
• The policies led to negotiations and new trade deals with many countries.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2025
• Both sides have agreed to work with a mediator to try to jump start the negotiations.
  — Bob Skolnik, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
• This comes after years of jammed negotiations over price and cost issues.
  — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• The news of potential negotiations drove down the price of oil.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Mar. 2026
• He has been largely shut out of any negotiations with the teams since the veto override.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• What was that negotiation process like to return for season four and with a new network?
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2022
• So will any of these new deals eclipse Saban or lead them back to the negotiation table?
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 1 Dec. 2021
• There are two negotiations going on right now.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025