noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
send
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Why is the White House fretting and sending emissaries to gauge what he really wants?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the emissaries had gone, he sat thinking for a long time.
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An emissary would be permitted to leave Berwick to apprise the so-called Regent of this arrangement.
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But instead of exploring a deal, Park had the emissary arrested and executed.
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Harassed by James's emissaries, Paul at last returns to Jerusalem, where a full-scale dispute ensues.
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He hardly lived up to his Dullesian billing as an emissary of Satan.
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She was convinced that sailors and tourists she saw were his emissaries, sent to proclaim his love for her.
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The emissary of the Barbeques had tailed Mitchell as far as the top of the beach and hesitated to come closer.
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Valery Tikhinya, 56, was one such unlikely emissary .