How to Use treaty in a Sentence

treaty

noun

• The treaty had been a work in progress for nearly 20 years.
  — Naomi Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
• The case turns in part on a clause that’s found in no other treaty in Canada.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• In April 1621, both had signed a treaty pledging to come to the aid of the other in case of attack.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Such a cap has long been in place for chinook salmon, a species that is the subject of a U.S.-Canada treaty.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
• That treaty was signed in the early 1990s during the fall of the Soviet Union.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• What to know Why do Russia and the United States have an arms-control treaty?
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
• The 1835 treaty, like all such treaties ratified by the Senate, is part of the binding law of the United States.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2023
• Otherwise, the treaty is not worth the paper it is printed on.
  — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Nations signed on to the treaty out of a strong belief that there were no other options.
  — Stanley S. Litow, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2025
• The next seven years of war and treaty established in fact what was declared in law.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 4 July 2022
• There is no treaty committing the United States to come to Iraq’s defense.
  — Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
• The United States is a signatory to the treaty, but not a party.
  — CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
• Some reforms will be discussed, even if no treaty is signed.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 22 May 2022
• And just to be able to finally ratify that treaty and be able to say, this is our home.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024
• The front pages of the broadsheets were filled with dense stories about the peace treaty process and congressional bills.
  — Time, 16 Sep. 2022
• The weapons are banned by treaty by more than 100 nations, but not by Russia, Ukraine or the United States, and both sides in the war have used them.
  — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Egypt and Israel fought four wars before signing a peace treaty in 1979.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
• The treaty commits the U.S. to selling at least three and as many as five Virginia submarines to Australia.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2024
• Per the treaty, those crimes are not subject to any statute of limitations.
  — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2024
• This was the first treaty between Native Americans and those coming to the New World.
  — WSJ, 29 Nov. 2021
• The country doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S.
  — Alex Scimecca, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2022
• Such a treaty would require 67 votes for approval in the U.S. Senate, which might seem like a tall order.
  — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
• As part of the treaty, the Kohinoor was ceded to Queen Victoria.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Sep. 2022
• There was going to be a treaty to deal with climate change, and every nation was going to step up to the plate.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
• The British government maintains the treaty was legal, even if it was signed by a child under duress.
  — Gillian Brockell, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• As a result, the countries have yet to sign a peace treaty to officially end the war between them.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2022
• Bangladesh has been seeking a treaty to share the waters of Teesta river for several years.
  — Abu Siddique, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
• Today, a treaty banning land mines has been signed by 164 countries.
  — Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
• Details of the treaty will have to be negotiated over the next couple of years.
  — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2022
• Then-President Carter in 1977 signed a treaty giving control of the canal to take full effect two decades later.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025