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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• If the vote fails and the board is forced to negotiate fresh terms, a new pay deal could prove prohibitively expensive.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 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
• On the flip side, being able to negotiate is essential for any good leader.
  — Sho Dewan, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• More than a year into a conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, there is little sign either Russia or Ukraine are keen to negotiate.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Instead, officials must first negotiate with the state employee unions to make changes to the current rules.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024
• 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
• The ultimate guide to negotiating a higher salary Your must-haves could be things like a salary range or a certain level of flexibility.
  — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024