How to Use parley in a Sentence

parley

noun
  • And not just by riding to work or heading out for a Peloton parley.
    — Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 17 July 2022
  • Still, that failed Kendall and Logan parley is on another level from everything else in the hour.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2021
  • That's probably what Bezos was trying to tell us during that journalistic parley around the turn of the century.
    — Robert Reed, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2017
  • Before the parley can devolve into violence (courtesy of Daemon), the usurped queen stopped them, and told Otto to wait for her answer.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Still, the mood surrounding Biden’s European parley is certain to represent an improvement over the recent past.
    — Washington Post, 15 June 2021
  • The adversaries conduct a formal parley, like buccaneers, declare mutual war and everyone has a fabulous time.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • Notifications and requests for parley must be unambiguously left by the cyber privateer so as to allow the right of parley to be exercised in a timely fashion.
    — Rick Bennett, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The three men have agreed to a parley after Prince Philip’s funeral, a last-ditch effort to resolve some of the family conflicts that drove Harry from his ancestral home.
    — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The 2020 Republican convention focused on issues in a way that the Democratic parley did not.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2020
  • North Korea is also threatening to scrap the Singapore parley unless denuclearization is taken off the agenda.
    — Nicholas Eberstadt, WSJ, 23 May 2018
  • But one of the very few indicators that this is still in play is a new article at The Information suggesting that Google people might want some kind of parley with Nvidia to talk about things.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • It has been built on the side of a canal inside the Arsenale, the spiked tops of its piles visible from a distance, with the hopes that both Mapuche and Chileans could travel to Venice and hold a parley, or traditional negotiation.
    — Colleen Barry, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2021

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