How to Use emissary in a Sentence

emissary

noun
  • She acted as the president's personal emissary to the union leaders.
  • Comets would thus be the default emissaries from other stars.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 27 June 2018
  • This Martin is an emissary from the past and a warning for the present.
    — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • This wasn't the first time that emissaries of the two companies met each other.
    — Joshua Quittner, WIRED, 1 Apr. 1998
  • Putin’s emissary turned out to be a banker, or, more accurately, a banker-spy.
    — Luke Harding, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The show went so far as to report the Fire sent emissaries to Madrid to close the sale.
    — José Luis Sánchez Pando, chicagotribune.com, 6 May 2018
  • Traxler grew up in Houston, Texas, a son of Chabad emissaries.
    — Judith Segaloff, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In both cities, Chabad emissaries have opened their doors to welcome Jewish fans.
    — Dovid Margolin, Jewish Journal, 28 June 2018
  • Or, more precisely, to the three-faced demon Baphomet, one of his emissaries.
    — Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Berlin sent an emissary to advise the Japanese on the way to proceed with the killing.
    — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 8 May 2024
  • The clerks do not have to confirm that the voter is disabled or ask the emissary for ID.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Yet, as the sole emissary of her fictional world, Jansson felt the need to be gracious.
    — Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Fred Weir, as a foreign journalist, is an emissary of a foreign state.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Expect emissaries from the ever-changing world of media.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The aiyi have sent an emissary to Scythia, who will determine whether the colonists deserve to survive.
    — Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Since then, Kailasa had popped up now and again when its emissaries caused embarrassment for politicians around the world.
    — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • That’s what Jackson had authorized his emissary to make happen.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The Almighty wishes to intervene – and calls upon Moses to act as his emissary.
    — Robert F. Barsky, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The dream of such a visit seems as remote as the stars themselves—unless, perhaps, the stars somehow send emissaries to us.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 May 2018
  • Yarish proved to be the ideal emissary with his bushy mustache and zeal for dangling fistfuls of drippy springy kelp in front of the camera.
    — Carol Leonetti Dannhauser, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2022
  • Leanne Morgan speaks to her audience as an emissary from another world.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025
  • And this is — Apple had Jimmy Iovine as sort of their emissary to the music business.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 12 June 2018
  • Zhou was acting as an emissary for the leader of China, Mao Zedong.
    — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • In recent months, Russia has sent emissaries to cajole the tribe members back to Assad’s fold.
    — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • So has his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who has been an emissary to Ukraine on the matter.
    — NBC News, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The meaning of Chinese emissaries’ evocative statements was often in the eye of the beholder.
    — Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
  • Gone was the wartime leader of the early weeks who sent emissaries to talks in Belarus and Turkey in the hope that reason might prevail.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The Snyders were Dorothy and her companions—the Wizard’s emissaries.
    — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The bell was joined by a container for herbs and medicines depicting the head of Ofoe, a divine emissary of the deity Ogie’uwu.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026

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