Example sentences for: emissary

How can you use “emissary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I proudly presented my 16-word concoction to my departmental colleagues and to my students, and a few days later I was summoned by an emissary from a Fourth Form (tenth grade) English class that met a few rooms down the hall from my class.

  • England’s King George III sent an emissary to negotiate conventional diplomatic and trade relations.

  • Yet in September 1998, when the Saudi emissary, Prince Turki, asked Mullah Omar whether he would keep his earlier promise to expel Bin Ladin, the Taliban leader said no.

  • He made Beijing, then known as Khanbaliq (Khan’s Town) or Dadu (Great Capital), the base for his extensive travels in China as emissary of the Khan.

  • "It has been most demoralizing," a British emissary to a U.S. company wrote his bosses in the late 1890s.


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