Example sentences for: emissary

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

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

  • When shopping, the well-versed Soviet emissary was told to order “a ladies' worsted-nylon swimming pants.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Post juxtaposes its report that as of right now, Reno still feels the coffee videos are not indications of Clinton criminality with mention of the appearance in the tapes of Arief Wiriadinata, an Indonesian who identifies himself on camera as an emissary of the Lippo Bank's James Riady, and of five businessmen having coffee with the president in the Oval Office who, it is now known, each contributed $100,000 within a week.


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