have relations with

Example Sentences

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We want to have relations with China, with the United States, with Russia, with France.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

"Paraguay must have relations with China," Alegre said in a recent interview after being named presidential candidate.

From Reuters • Jan. 5, 2023

She remains “puzzled,” she said, because the former employees “have continued to have relations with me over the years, thanked me for their clerkships, and shared personal details of their lives with me,” Garza said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

I talked to this commander, and he was saying, “Listen, we want to have relations with every country. It’s really important to us that we’re not going to be an international pariah like before.”

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2021

And the boy was charmed to find that any one who was good-tempered could have relations with letters.

From Maxim Gorki by Ostwald, Hans