How to Use go-between in a Sentence

go-between

noun
  • That was the work of a go-between.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • My youth was my downfall, my sin love, and the go-between a snowy day.
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • Asking me to be your go-between will not make things better and is not fair to me.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • Whether somebody can find their way to a go-between depends on three factors.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • It's been a go-between for Israel and Hamas for more than a decade.
    — Ava Benny-Morrison Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 10 July 2024
  • In this respect, Gilbert and others can at times serve as a go-between.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Having served his function as the go-between, Lukashenko seems ready to step aside.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a person called a go-between, who can summon the dead and arrange a meeting?
    — Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Iran has downplayed the talks, which has Pakistan acting as the go-between.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Encourage them to present their solutions, ideas and progress rather than rely on you as the go-between.
    — Daria Rudnik, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • But not a day passed as the go-between when Ayumi didn’t think about Misa Arashi and her friend.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • First, the go-between receives a request from a living person, someone like you.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Bushey said he was approached by his former roommate, who was acting as a go-between with the Dowds.
    — John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 10 July 2025
  • The go-between receives a request from a living person and passes it on to the deceased.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Prosecutors have alleged the senator used his wife as a go-between for the bribes.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 1 July 2024
  • At its most basic level, the role of stylist is that of a go-between, connecting designers and clients.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Although Faraldo did multiple tasks, her main role was to act as the go-between for the cast and the crew.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024
  • The closet-sized room serves as a go-between, its contents connecting her family’s past and present lives.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Both programs are labor intensive, though, with the state agencies acting as a go-between.
    — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 21 Jan. 2026
  • One country that has emerged as a key go-between is Pakistan, where two sources said an in-person meeting could be held in the coming days.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Oman prides itself as a neutral go-between among conflicting regional powers.
    — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • The Bruins have a leadership council that acts as a go-between for the players and coaches every season.
    — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The skin microbiome is a go-between, interacting with both our body’s internal world and the external world.
    — Andrea Kane, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Following their meeting in Tehran, Khamenei suggested Iraq could be a go-between.
    — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • My experiences as a go-between for my mother taught me to communicate better with my neighbors here in Italy.
    — Bob Brody, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2026
  • But for those in the know, the go-between was a normal presence, about as common as rumors of moguls and stars paying large amounts of money to keep a psychic or astrologer on hand.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Some people search high and low and never find their way to the go-between, while others, the ones who really need it, don’t do anything and the information finds them.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Burton clashed bitterly with Gielgud over the staging ahead of opening night, with Taylor acting as go-between.
    — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The tracker includes the names of lobbyists that the county employees listed as go-betweens for some sponsorship dollars.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Not long ago, executive assistants and before them secretaries, served as a corporate go-between.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'go-between.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: