Example sentences for: proxies

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

  • Then the United States would no longer have been dependent on proxies to gather actionable intelligence.

  • But in crises such as this one, Clinton has historically turned to proxies for his dirty work.

  • A decade ago, when the contras and Sandinistas were willing proxies for the final great showdown of the Cold War, a Daniel Ortega press conference could easily draw 100 foreign reporters--double that if he had a captured American spy or some other bauble to show off.

  • CIA officials also began pressing proposals to use their ties with the Northern Alliance to get American agents on the ground in Afghanistan for an extended period, setting up their own base for covert intelligence collection and activity in the Panjshir Valley and lessening reliance on foreign proxies."

  • But there were limits to what the CIA was able to achieve in its energetic worldwide efforts to disrupt terrorist activities or use proxies to try to capture or kill Bin Ladin and his lieutenants.


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