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
• Enrique Mora said in his meeting with the Chinese envoy.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 29 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Saudi negotiators, together with a UN envoy, began talking to the Houthis about a longer-term peace agreement.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
• That approach may have led to the on-again, off-again dialogue in recent months between Kerry and Xie Zhenhua, China’s special climate envoy.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• Until now, the Palestinian conflict was deemed something of a secondary issue in the talks that Mr. Biden’s envoys have conducted with the Saudis, one that had to be addressed to smooth the larger rapprochement but that was not the heart of the deal.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• Bloomberg looms so large over international climate efforts that he has been named a UN special envoy on climate.
  — Evan Halper, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• Mike Bloomberg looms so large over international climate efforts that he has been named a U.N. special envoy on climate.
  — Evan Halper, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2022
• In the aftermath of the killing, the Core Group, an informal gathering of envoys from countries including the United States, backed him from among several contenders to lead the country to new elections.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• The envoy added that the prices of essential goods, including food, medicine, fuel and other basic commodities, are spiraling out of control.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• Many States do not issue diplomatic passports either to members of their overseas missions or to special envoys.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Malley was lucky that, at the time of his appointment to the Biden administration two years ago, special envoys did not need Senate confirmation.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
• The Doha meeting included Afghan civil society groups and envoys from at least 25 countries.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024