How to Use diplomacy in a Sentence

diplomacy

noun
  • She has had a long and distinguished career in diplomacy.
  • This is a situation that calls for tactful diplomacy.
  • The government avoided a war by successfully resolving the issues through diplomacy.
  • The war was won on the battlefield (and by the French navy) and Franklin’s diplomacy moved all the pieces and the peace into place.
    Craig Bruce Smith, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • And with that, an era of panda diplomacy will end, at least for now.
    Edward Wong Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Scott: Tell me more about the diplomacy element of a World’s Fair.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 2 May 2023
  • Or is there still room for the diplomacy being urged by the United States?
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Biden would still like to bring the war to a conclusion through diplomacy.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The point of diplomacy This isn’t to say that diplomacy and face-to-face talks are pointless.
    Michael Beckley, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But diplomacy takes two to tango, or, in this case, three.
    Editorial Board, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • For all his shift-change bonhomie and diplomacy on the dais, O’Brien can be an abrasive force in the office.
    Nick Tabor, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
  • Consider their point of view on the 19th when diplomacy wins.
    Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The week-long pause in fighting and release of dozens of hostages, Thomas-Greenfield said, was the result of U.S. diplomacy.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Yet sometimes diplomacy is about picking the least bad out of a slate of bad options.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • What is the least bad option in dealing with hostage diplomacy?
    Max Fisher, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Kissinger has been at the forefront of U.S. diplomacy for longer than most Americans have been alive.
    CBS News, 27 May 2023
  • Hamas' top leader, Ismail Haniyeh, traveled to Cairo for talks on the war, part of a flurry of diplomacy.
    Josef Federman, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2023
  • He is engaged in high- level, high stakes diplomacy for a long time.
    CBS News, 16 July 2023
  • While in London, Jill Biden will engage in some soft diplomacy before the big event.
    Darlene Superville, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • For almost two decades, Sergei Lavrov has been the frowning face of Russian diplomacy.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • But soft power and person-to-person diplomacy are seen as ways to build back trust.
    Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2022
  • That means no more hostage diplomacy, no $6 billion in exchange for hostages.
    Eric Shawn, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • This is another area where the book really busts a long standing myth, and that is the myth of debt trap diplomacy.
    CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That hope evaporated with the collapse of his diplomacy with Mr. Trump in 2019.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • And that's the hardest diplomacy of all because it's done by consensus.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Call it a juggling act, a triumph in diplomacy, a vision gone right, or sheer chutzpah.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Working with Egypt to get the Rafah crossing open—that was the result of personal diplomacy by the President.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But they weren’t fully acquainted with the fabric's worth in the West, since their only foreign trade of the textile was a part of their diplomacy.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
  • So there’s a way of trying to understand why the other side is that way and trying to reach out a hand and somehow convince them through diplomacy.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Those of us familiar with the world of international diplomacy will get some of the finer points of the comedy — all the nonsense about working papers and the protocol and stuff.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024

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