Sample Sentences forparley (editor-reviewed)
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The rival leaders agreed to a brief parley to negotiate a ceasefire.parley = discussion or negotiation
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After days of fighting, the generals decided to parley at dawn to seek a peaceful resolution.parley = negotiate
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Let's parley. (source)parley = negotiate or talk
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Their phones rested screens-down between them, like the weapons of desperadoes at a parley. (source)parley = negotiation or discussion
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It could mean attack, it could mean parley, it could mean the edge of something, a territory. (source)parley = negotiation
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I will not parley, as I have said, with armed men at my gate. (source)parley = negotiate
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...waited no longer to hold parley with the hermit, (source)parley = negotiation or discussion -- especially between enemies
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"That is the building you described last summer," Chiron said, "where you parleyed with the Romans." (source)parleyed = negotiated
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Kemp had hurried upstairs after letting Adye out, and now crouching among the broken glass and peering cautiously over the edge of the study window sill, he saw Adye stand parleying with the Unseen.† (source)
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From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came the report of musketry.† (source)
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There was no earthquake, and the whole of the following day was spent, so far as Rieux was concerned, in long drives to every corner of the town, in parleyings with the families of the sick and arguments with the invalids themselves.† (source)
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I do degenerate, and abuse my nation, To play with opportunity thus long; I should have done the act, and then have parley'd.† (source)
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"I come in peace and wish to parley," he said to the men on the shore. (source)parley = negotiate or talk
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Well—I parleyed, didn't I?† (source)
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Some parleying was audible in the hall, and soon the new-comer entered.† (source)
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All the dark pageantry of war in Gaul, the thrust of the Roman spear through the shield of hide, the barbaric parleys in the forests, and the proud clangor of triumph—all that might have been supplied in the story of the great realist, by one touch of the transforming passion with which a great teacher projects his work, was lacking.† (source)
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