How to Use strike a deal in a Sentence

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  • The Seattle Mariners are a team that could use a bat, and should be a club to watch if the Marlins strike a deal for him.
    Craig Mish, Miami Herald, 8 July 2024
  • That said, there might be hope that the United States can step in and strike a deal for Griner’s release.
    Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • But the Cowboys were able to strike a deal that appeases both sides.
    Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • But even that route is uncertain with time dwindling to strike a deal.
    Stephen Groves and Lisa Mascaro, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But the sides haven’t been able to strike a deal in nine months of on-and-off talks, and Wilkins’ market has only increased over that time.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • If the two sides can’t strike a deal, the 23-year-old will become a restricted free agent next summer.
    C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Had Jackson had an agent who couldn’t strike a deal with the Ravens by now, chances are that agent would have been dumped for not getting the job done.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Netanyahu has come under growing pressure from abroad and at home to strike a deal.
    Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Time is short to strike a deal before a deadline as soon as June 1, when the Treasury says the government risks running out of cash to pay its bills.
    Lisa Mascaro and Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2023
  • This time, the parties seem highly motivated to strike a deal.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2021
  • With the third and most vicious brother (Danny Huston) still at large, Winstone tries to strike a deal with his quarry.
    and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
  • The seven states that depend on water from those reservoirs are still scrambling to strike a deal that will stop them from crashing.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The companies strike a deal with a renter’s landlord covering the deposit, then charge the renter a monthly fee instead.
    Will Parker, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Regardless of whether the Yankees strike a deal or not, the team plans on adding a bat to its active roster before the July 30 trade deadline.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
  • Employees at the company have authorized a work stoppage should the parties fail to strike a deal.
    Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • The source said that US officials have made clear to their Israeli counterparts that the time to strike a deal is now, in order to prevent a regional war.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • As the ruling kept going in Dominion’s favor, its lawyers were surprised that Fox was not making more of an effort to strike a deal.
    Katie Robertson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Still, smaller dealers may try to strike a deal to share representation.
    Julia Halperin, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Its inability to strike a deal with Disney is nothing short of a betrayal of its promise.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Biden should see the light or strike a deal with the responsible Democrat leaders for a graceful departure and help prevent the slaughter of the Democrat party up and down the ballot.
    Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2024
  • Two industry giants collided in showdown that led to a blackout for millions of pay TV customers — but then still managed to strike a deal.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Pharmaceutical firms that refuse to strike a deal could face massive financial penalties based on their sales.
    Tony Romm, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In a legal context, her words gave the jury a sense of why Mr. Trump might be motivated to strike a deal to keep her silent, and the stakes for him of not doing so only weeks prior to the 2016 presidential vote.
    Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2024
  • That track record suggests Aiyuk remains poised to strike a deal close to perhaps $30 million annually, judging from the ballooning market rate.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
  • Set against the backdrop of commercial fishing, the story takes on primal stakes when desperate circumstances force the brothers to strike a deal with a violent Boston crime gang.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The lack of clarity on whether the Israeli prime minister will adhere to Biden’s May proposal, the source added, suggests time is running out to strike a deal before an Iranian attack.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Fishermen went on strike for weeks this spring, and the provincial premier had to intervene to help strike a deal with processors, who only agreed to make their initial offer the minimum price.
    Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • But McAlevey’s vision of a worker-led, militant union put her at odds with the national union’s leaders, who hoped that the union would strike a deal with hospital corporate leadership.
    Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Now, the timeframe for Chinese and American regulators to strike a deal on audits is running perilously short.
    Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 27 July 2022
  • Meanwhile, bipartisan negotiators in the Senate are struggling to strike a deal that might stem the crisis and overhaul immigration laws for the first time in nearly 40 years.
    CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023

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