How to Use arms deal in a Sentence

arms deal

noun
  • Both Iran and Russia have denied the existence of an arms deal, but the distinctive shape of the drones is hard to overlook.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • That Washington agreed to this $23 billion arms deal is no small matter.
    Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The two countries have nearly finalized their biggest arms deal in 30 years.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Kim met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a potential arms deal, though no agreement has yet been signed.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Kim met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a potential arms deal, though no agreement has been signed yet.
    Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • American diplomatic officials did not respond to requests for comment about the prospect of the arms deal.
    Hannah Beech, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Read full article Any arms deal with North Korea would violate the sanctions, which Russia supported in the past.
    Kim Tong-Hyung, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Neither leader announced an arms deal after their summit, and may never do so publicly.
    Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • No formal arms deal has been reached, however, according to Moscow.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Much of this was wishful thinking born of a hangover from the pre-revolutionary days, but what was perhaps most remarkable was that Tehran considered the arms deal at all.
    Ali M. Ansari, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
  • Sullivan did not specify what steps the administration might take if North Korea went ahead with an arms deal.
    Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • If any specific arms deal was struck, neither Moscow nor Pyongyang was expected to announce it.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Russia is believed to be interested in an arms deal to refill its slimming supply of arms as its invasion of Ukraine continues.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The two leaders, flanked by their top military officials, are set to negotiate a potential arms deal to help resupply Moscow’s military drained by its war in Ukraine.
    Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Saudi Arabia is also cited as spending hundreds of thousands of dollars at Trump’s properties around the time the former president signed an arms deal with the Saudi government worth more than $100 billion.
    Farnoush Amiri, Twin Cities, 21 May 2024
  • The Trump administration agreed to the controversial arms deal, worth over $100 billion, despite bipartisan concerns about civilian casualties resulting from Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in Yemen.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024

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