Example sentences for: ultimatum

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

  • At the September 13 NSC meeting, when Secretary Powell described Pakistan's reply, President Bush led a discussion of an appropriate ultimatum to the Taliban.

  • President Clinton told us that before he could launch further attacks on al Qaeda in Afghanistan, or deliver an ultimatum to theTaliban threatening strikes if they did not immediately expel Bin Ladin, the CIA or the FBI had to be sure enough that they would "be willing to stand up in public and say, we believe that he [Bin Ladin] did this."

  • He demanded that the British merchants in Canton surrender their opium stores, and to back up his ultimatum he laid siege to the traders, who, after six tense weeks, surrendered over 20,000 chests of opium.

  • They sailed into what is now Kingston Bay in May 1655 and sent an ultimatum to the capital.

  • President Bush directed Secretary of State Powell to deliver an ultimatum to the Taliban along the lines that his department had originally proposed.


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