Example sentences for: treaty

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

  • Republicans said they voted against the treaty because it lacked adequate monitoring and enforcement mechanisms, wouldn't affect rogue states, and imposed too permanent a commitment on the United States to refrain from testing.

  • In the Treaty of Nanking (1842) China was compelled to open five of its ports to foreign economic and political penetration, and even to compensate the opium smugglers for their losses.

  • Overnight, it appeared, they had been handed over to King Charles III of Spain — though the treaty was not announced until 1764.

  • All agreed that Gore is doomed if the treaty becomes his signature issue.

  • But many treaty advocates (such as Mark Shields, of the NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) note that it was President Bush , no dove, who unilaterally stopped American nuclear testing--computer models or no computer models.


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