How to Use bargaining chip in a Sentence

bargaining chip

noun

• Did the Mafia want a bargaining chip to help free a member from prison?
  — Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• John Oliver is using kitchen equipment that used to belong to Red Lobster as a bargaining chip to get his face on a cake.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
• If Ukraine’s future were to become Trump’s bargaining chip, that could prompt a series of shattering knock-on effects.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
• In other words, this is a close account of the conflict that laid the foundations for Gaza as a perennial flashpoint — a refuge, a bargaining chip and a battlefield.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• More than 100 men, women and children are still being kept prisoners by Hamas, and this is our only bargaining chip.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2024
• Israel wants female soldiers to be among the hostages released in this group, but Hamas aims to hold on to them as a bargaining chip for a subsequent deal, the former Egyptian official said.
  — Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• That punted the question of future aid to Ukraine and left some Republicans bemoaning how the issue has become a politicized bargaining chip.
  — Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Three of the defendants, with agreement with the judges and prosecutors, used the charges of illegally possessing firearms as a bargaining chip to get other charges reduced.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 12 May 2024
• At the time, many Republicans, including the Tea Party group, were pushing for major structural fiscal reforms and saw the debt limit as a bargaining chip.
  — Josh Wingrove, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
• The people on the frontline are these librarians and teachers who are having an absolute nightmare, all in the name of a political bargaining chip.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2023
• If McCarthy and his minions refuse to honor their own fiscal obligations, Biden should disregard them; that’s his most valuable bargaining chip.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• China could also use its ability to sit down with all parties as a bargaining chip to pressure other countries to respect its interests.
  — Bonny Lin, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2023
• King will almost certainly be used as propaganda by North Korea, and later be made a bargaining chip to extract concessions from the United States.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
• Others are hoping for a bargaining chip during the negotiating process or are trying to avoid moving into a home that might be a local tourist attraction.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• And using emergency aid as a bargaining chip is not exactly an unknown behavior on Capitol Hill.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2024
• The group has already effectively held hostage more than two dozen of Parson’s nominees for statewide agencies, boards and commissions as a bargaining chip with Senate leadership.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• More than just a work of art — or a metaphor for an oppressed people’s revenge fantasy — the contraption becomes a bargaining chip in a desperate bid by Indian royalty to fend off British conquest.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Francis had not committed any crimes in Venezuela, but Maduro’s government kept him in detention in the hope of using him as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with the Biden administration.
  — Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• Decades later, the state similarly used unresolved water rights as a bargaining chip, asking tribes to agree not to pursue the main method of expanding their reservations in exchange for settling their water claims.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 17 Oct. 2023
• In courtrooms across America, prosecutors and defense lawyers every day hash out charges against green card holders with deportation as a key bargaining chip.
  — Daniel Barnes, NBC News, 24 May 2023
• The potential of a Microsoft deal also served as a useful bargaining chip for Apple when negotiating its lucrative search deal with Google.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2023
• By taking away developers’ ability to propose large projects, the state could take away a powerful bargaining chip, some developers say.
  — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
• The major wrench thrown into this negotiation happens to be LeBron’s son as a possible bargaining chip for opposing teams.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 June 2024
• In the early American republic, amid the negotiations in Philadelphia, the capital was used—for the first of many times—as a political bargaining chip.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
• Republican leaders had hoped to use holding an impeachment inquiry vote as a bargaining chip that could win over the support of some hard-right lawmakers on supporting a government funding bill.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Amy B Wang, Jacqueline Alemany, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
• But as a soldier and US citizen, King also gives Pyongyang a potentially powerful bargaining chip.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 19 July 2023
• Teams were not to negotiate against one another, and any player found to be using one team as a bargaining chip to elicit a more lucrative salary from a rival would be immediately blacklisted.
  — Ahmed Al Omran, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• There’s also about $4 billion in budgeted but uncommitted money for public education that could be used as a bargaining chip.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 17 July 2023
• The cloud giant had already poured billions of dollars into the startup, including computational power, and was working quickly to leverage that bargaining chip.
  — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
• As such, hanging on to territory in Kursk could prove a useful bargaining chip, although doing so could come at a high cost in the face of a stronger and more organized response by Russia to the incursion.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024