How to Use parley in a Sentence

parley

noun

• Zarif has said the U.S. must lift sanctions before such a parley.
  — Eli Lake, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The 2020 Republican convention focused on issues in a way that the Democratic parley did not.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2020
• Those categories are for individuals who do not seek to join the U.S., but rather represent nations seeking to parley with—or conquer—it.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
• 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
• Still, the mood surrounding Biden’s European parley is certain to represent an improvement over the recent past.
  — Washington Post, 15 June 2021
• His months of reporting in Mali allow him to reconstruct vivid scenes, such as that of a night parley between a Timbuktu militia and the rebel command on a rug set before a corral of 4x4 vehicles in which the only light came from cigarettes.
  — Tom Zoellner, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• North Korea is also threatening to scrap the Singapore parley unless denuclearization is taken off the agenda.
  — Nicholas Eberstadt, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• The adversaries conduct a formal parley, like buccaneers, declare mutual war and everyone has a fabulous time.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 14 July 2017
• Zarif has said the U.S. must lift sanctions before such a parley.
  — Eli Lake, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The 2020 Republican convention focused on issues in a way that the Democratic parley did not.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2020
• Those categories are for individuals who do not seek to join the U.S., but rather represent nations seeking to parley with—or conquer—it.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
• 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
• Still, the mood surrounding Biden’s European parley is certain to represent an improvement over the recent past.
  — Washington Post, 15 June 2021
• His months of reporting in Mali allow him to reconstruct vivid scenes, such as that of a night parley between a Timbuktu militia and the rebel command on a rug set before a corral of 4x4 vehicles in which the only light came from cigarettes.
  — Tom Zoellner, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• North Korea is also threatening to scrap the Singapore parley unless denuclearization is taken off the agenda.
  — Nicholas Eberstadt, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• The adversaries conduct a formal parley, like buccaneers, declare mutual war and everyone has a fabulous time.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 14 July 2017

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