How to Use back channel in a Sentence

back channel

noun

• Through back channels, those teams have gotten the brush-off from the Spurs.
  — Sean Meagher, OregonLive.com, 10 May 2018
• This makes the meeting at least the second time the back channel was brought up.
  — Elizabeth Drew, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2018
• Over the past few weeks there have been hints that back channel talks were bridging gaps.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 26 Mar. 2018
• What’s not entirely clear is what the back channel would have been for.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2018
• Nixon was relying on Yahya as a back channel to the Chinese.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• Why was a back channel to the Kremlin deemed so important?
  — Elizabeth Drew, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2018
• Still, once in office, Mr. Trump used him as a back channel to the Chinese leadership.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• What’s to stop a big-name school going back channel and offering the family a pile of NIL dough?
  — oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2022
• And a jury found that Trump’s dirty trickster, Roger Stone, lied about the true nature of his back channel to the Russian hack-and-leak effort.
  — Marcy Wheeler, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
• Trades could be lined up, or soon-to-be free agents who have signaled their interest through back channels.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 31 May 2018
• According to the indictment, in May 2016, Barrack agreed to serve as a back channel between the Emiratis and the Trump campaign.
  — Rebecca Davis O'Brien, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2022
• Henry Kissinger used to meet regularly with Putin as a back channel.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2022
• Oman has long served as a bridge between countries in the region, including as a back channel between the U.S. and Iran ahead of talks that led to the 2015 nuclear deal.
  — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
• Finally, five years and four months after Mr. Shalit was captured, their back channel bore fruit.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Neither side is keen to advertise the existence of these back channels.
  — Isobel Koshiw, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• In 2017, it was reported that the Trump administration tried to set up a back channel with Syria to free Austin Tice.
  — Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 27 Jan. 2020
• Immediately after the meeting, Khalilzad’s team in Doha, which had been in the loop about the back channel, received two calls.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• The mission consists of the only North Korean diplomats in the United States, and they have been used as a diplomatic back channel for years.
  — Sophie Haigney, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
• Farah, according to Hutchinson, agreed to serve as a back channel to the committee to provide it with the right questions to ask when Hutchinson returned.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
• As the Marjorie C passes under the new bridge spanning the back channel, its cables lit blue against the gray sky, the pilot orders the Teresa to change position.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• If Ghani had in fact agreed to a deal with the Taliban through Rahimi’s back channel, then the meeting was mostly political theater.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• Without a two-way cable network, a standard analog modem must be used as a back channel.
  — Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2019
• There are walleye fish and back channel messages with a Costco manager.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2021
• Over the summer, the governor took pains to avoid overtly criticizing Mr. Biden and instead focused on pushing the White House for more help through back channels.
  — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Acting as a diplomatic back channel, Cairo brokered a cease-fire to end the 11-day conflict and earned American plaudits for doing so.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2021
• Players usually can learn through back channels whom the manager will be, or at least the most likely candidates.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Our move should be to warn the Russians directly, in public and via back channels, that such behavior will not be tolerated.
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 Mar. 2023
• Abramovich reportedly hasn’t been sanctioned yet by the US because of his role as a potential back channel between Kyiv and Moscow.
  — Casey Michel, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
• Around that time, Giuliani, who had joined Trump's legal team months earlier, began talks with individuals who were part of the back channel to Maduro.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2019
• The idea that there’s a secret back channel has also circulated in European capitals, though officials deny knowing anything about it.
  — Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024