How to Use envoy in a Sentence

envoy

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Jolie has been the U.N.'s highest profile goodwill ambassador and special envoy since 2001.
  — Pamela Falk, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2022
• The bombings drew an angry reaction from Iraq itself, which summoned the U.S. envoy in protest and said the strikes on its soil had killed civilians and risked destabilizing the region.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• No replacement has been announced amid reports that the State Department will soon name a special envoy for Sudan.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• Greeting her was Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs in the State Department.
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• Its envoy was never invited to the ceremony, the office told CNN.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 19 July 2024
• Jolie's departure as a U.N. spokesperson and envoy on these issues comes at a time when the agency is struggling to deal with an increase in human rights violations around the world.
  — Pamela Falk, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2022
• China sent a peace envoy to the Jeddah talks after not attending an initial gathering in Copenhagen in late June.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• The barrage came as European leaders sought new ways to punish Russia for the war and a Chinese envoy sought traction for Beijing’s peace proposal.
  — Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2023
• During China’s Ming and Qing dynasties, foreign envoys followed a norm of paying tribute to the royal court.
  — Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, said in July that his office is handling about 30 to 40 cases.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Joe Yun, Biden’s special presidential envoy for compact negotiations, said the amounts will be far greater than what the US had provided in the past.
  — Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
• In late 2021, the House of Representatives passed a measure that would create a special envoy to monitor and combat Islamophobia worldwide, but the Senate has never acted on it.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024