emissary
Example Sentences
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His Middle East envoy, who he called “a killer” dealmaker, would become America’s emissary to the court of Putin.
In this forbidding climate, Genly Ai, an emissary from Terra, another planet, struggles to understand a place where gender roles, modes of communication and beliefs are entirely different from those at home.
After the kidnapping, emissaries representing Dubai’s ruling family met Malian officials and intermediaries at a Bamako Radisson, the officials said.
If Zelensky were to dismiss Yermak, he would lose his foremost emissary to the U.S. since the start of the war.
The theocrat would express his distrust of the Americans, caution his emissaries to be vigilant, but then obliquely defend their efforts.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
