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.
• That means for the next six months, the zoo will not negotiate with other cities.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 7 May 2024
• Young would then ride to meet the photographer, and try to negotiate to get the clip for free.
  — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 14 Jan. 2023
• The group brought it to their managers to try to negotiate for higher pay.
  — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• His mom is the one who negotiates hard for his contracts.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• In recent days, the House speaker has tried to amp up pressure on Biden and Democrats to negotiate.
  — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2023
• For Eliquis, the drug on which Medicare spends the most money, Medicare negotiated the price down to $231.
  — John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs Zhang, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
• That involved negotiating a truce between the Bloods and the Crips, a rival gang, in 2000.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2024
• A few hours later, Lee got a call from Fuchsberg: Vince was ready to negotiate with Tom.
  — Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2023
• The workers have until Jan. 15 to negotiate other terms of the deal.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
• The union has been on strike since July, after negotiating for more than a year and a half on a contract.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
• In fact, some people are able to negotiate for no down payment at all.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
• Biden has said the US is also negotiating adding the European Union to the list, and others could be added in the future.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• The union is seeking a $5-an-hour pay increase each of the six years of the contract being negotiated, which would raise top hourly pay 77% over the life of the contract.
  — Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Taylor Swift doesn’t have to negotiate a show in every city.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2023
• The two sides hadn’t negotiated in the days leading up to the potential stoppage.
  — Mike Calia, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
• 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
• In other words, the leader needs to negotiate on behalf of the employee, not against them.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2023
• That contract would be the first of many the successful candidate would have to negotiate.
  — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 25 Oct. 2024
• Hamas and Israel would then negotiate phase two — a permanent end to the war and Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
  — Michele Kelemen, NPR, 10 June 2024
• News also broke this week that lenders had hired lawyers to negotiate debt with WeightWatchers.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
• Her voice was heard by Gadsden police who arrived on the scene to negotiate with Stewart.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 24 Jan. 2023
• The arrival of streamers made this much more complex, and gave these producers enough leverage to negotiate in their best interests.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024
• This year, the union affiliated with the Teamsters, although Amazon has so far declined to negotiate a contract.
  — Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024