How to Use negotiate in a Sentence

negotiate

verb

• The customer wanted to negotiate over the price.
• We negotiated a fair price.
• She has good negotiating skills.
• The driver carefully negotiated the winding road.
• His mom is the one who negotiates hard for his contracts.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• The rights deal was negotiated by Hill and Manjourides.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
• Our position is clear: to resolve the strike, the companies will have to negotiate with the WGA on our full agenda.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 1 June 2023
• The soft spots exist so your baby can safely negotiate the narrow birth canal and allow for brain and skull growth in the first year.
  — Denise Schipani, Parents, 22 June 2023
• Scott didn’t have a chance to negotiate a second Pac-12 media deal.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• News also broke this week that lenders had hired lawyers to negotiate debt with WeightWatchers.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
• The negotiating framework would see three prisoners freed for each hostage — the same terms as the November pause.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
• The new prices for those drugs will be negotiated by HHS next year, in the middle of next year’s presidential campaign.
  — Amanda Seitz, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
• When faced with the task of negotiating for the credit for having lost all his stuff, Shanley got even more invested in the proprietor.
  — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• District 1 representative Liz Walsh said the school board should not wait until the final weeks of the process to negotiate a budget gap.
  — Ethan Ehrenhaft, Baltimore Sun, 30 May 2023
• The city has been negotiating with the receiver in control of the property for months to sign what would be one of the region’s largest office leases of the year if it is approved by the City Council.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• For months, the White House insisted that Biden would not negotiate with Republicans to avoid a default.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• In this space, a private lavatory for the older students in their school, the girls record their videos, gossip, mock their instructors and negotiate the terms of their friendship.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
• That’s up to state agency managers, who often negotiate with unions for raises.
  — Ben Botkin, oregonlive, 20 June 2023
• The guild began negotiating with the top studios and streaming services two days later.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 13 July 2023
• The second problem was that the insurance contracts must be negotiated at arm's length to be valid for tax purposes.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Biden is adhering to the notion of not negotiating through the press, while McCarthy has frequently engaged the media.
  — Leigh Ann Caldwell, Marianna Sotomayor, Paul Kane and Tyler Pager, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
• The government has been running on short-term spending laws since the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, as lawmakers continued to negotiate full-year funding.
  — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2024
• This deal would allow sellers more latitude to negotiate down agent’s fees.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2024
• Under state law, a Meet and Confer agreement provides a blueprint for how the city negotiates with the police department in terms of wages, working conditions and work hours.
  — Ricardo Delgado, San Antonio Express-News, 17 May 2023
• Thomas used to work with a management company that took 20 percent of her income in exchange for negotiating brand deals.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• The move is an unusual one in the union’s history of negotiating with the car companies, according to people familiar with the talks.
  — Nora Eckert, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Congress may need to pass a short-term extension to allow for additional time to negotiate the current farm bill.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• Israel’s vow to resume the war is at cross-purposes with Arab countries who negotiated the hostage release and want the temporary truce to evolve into a more lasting cease-fire.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• These include: Hamas is no longer demanding an immediate truce, but is open to negotiating one before the start of Ramadan around March 10.
  — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
• The lone vote in favor of moving forward was from Colin Parent, who tried unsuccessfully to give city staffers more time to negotiate design changes.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024