emissaries
- plural of emissary.
Example Sentences
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Deprived of a second term, he retreated to his Massachusetts farm, imagining himself a latter-day Cicero, who likewise ended up “watched, dreaded, envied, by all: no doubt Slandered by innumerable Emissaries, despized, insulted, belied.”
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2020
Emissaries from the party’s centrist wing have begun wetting themselves accordingly.
From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2020
Emissaries from the Chinese tech industry are visiting the Bay Area to see how ideas emerge.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2016
Emissaries shuttled back and forth between the two sides.
From Time Magazine Archive
Emissaries were already dropping in to confer with him.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
