parley

Example Sentences

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Sadat was assassinated in October 1981, a scant three years after that historic parley.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025

My dad had a never-ending parley with pirates, but I would break the cycle “Hacker!” my brother muttered behind me.

From The Verge • Aug. 11, 2022

Putin parks himself at one end of a ridiculously long conference table to parley with a visiting dignitary barely in shouting range.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022

When sufficient forces arrived—variously estimated at 125–300 men—white sheriff Columbus Nash summoned black organizer Levi Allen for a parley.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Is it not ever thus, the attempts to parley between master and slave, and perhaps between all men—is it not always words shouted across the shifting flood, torn away by wind?

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson