TREATY in a Sentence

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For TREATY, below is one of 62 sentences:
Finally the treaty was entered into; and the parties thereunto sat down to wait, with some impatience, until Oliver should awake.

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 Meanings and Examples of TREATY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
treaty
 n.  act of treating for the adjustment of differences; negotiation
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  But I move in uncertainty of Jove's ordinance, whether he will that Tyrians and wanderers from Troy be one city, or approve the mingling of peoples and the treaty of union.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
2  Next these same kings laid down their mutual strife and stood armed before Jove's altar with cup in hand, and joined treaty over a slain sow.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
3  I join battle; bring the holy things, my lord, and swear the treaty.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
4  And therewithal Aeneas, terrible in his mother's armour, kindles for warfare and awakes into wrath, rejoicing that offer of treaty stays the war.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
5  Mine eyes cannot look on this battle and treaty: thou, if thou darest aught of more present help for the brother of thy blood, go on; it befits thee.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
6  This is not time for tears,' cries Juno, daughter of Saturn: 'hasten and snatch thy brother, if it may be, from his death; or do thou waken war, and make the treaty abortive.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
7  With such words they sealed mutual treaty midway in sight of the princes.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
8  Bowls and hearth-fires are carried off; Latinus himself retreats, bearing the outraged gods of the broken treaty.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
9  Messapus, eager to shatter the treaty, rides menacingly down on Aulestes the Tyrrhenian, a king in a king's array.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
10  Ah my sister, long ere now I knew thee, when first thine arts shattered the treaty, and thou didst mingle in the strife; and now thy godhead conceals itself in vain.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
11  I claim," said Athelstane, "an honourable imprisonment, with due care of my board and of my couch, as becomes my rank, and as is due to one who is in treaty for ransom.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  Finally the treaty was entered into; and the parties thereunto sat down to wait, with some impatience, until Oliver should awake.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  Some one, then, was in that room where my precious treaty lay upon the table.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
14  I had been so confident of regaining the treaty at once that I had not dared to think of what would be the consequence if I failed to do so.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
15  The treaty will cease to be secret in a few months.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  The US and the former Soviet Union were co-signatories of/to the treaty.
17  Surveys indicate that supporters of the treaty are still in the majority.
18  Opinion polls indicated a two - thirds majority in favour of ratification of the treaty.
19  The Foundation is bound by the treaty to help any nation that requests aid.
20  A multilateral nuclear test ban treaty was to be signed.
21  Under the treaty, both sides will sign away a third of their nuclear weapons.
22  The treaty is to our advantage.
23  Technically, the two countries are still at war, as a peace treaty was never signed.
24  His new relationship with Germany is enshrined in a new non-aggression treaty.
25  The missile-reduction treaty makes sweeping cuts, but the arms race isn't over by a long shot.
26  They are demanding certain guarantees before they sign the treaty.
27  British financier and public official who concluded the treaty between Great Britain and the United States that defined the border between Canada and Maine(1842).
28  The proposed treaty would give credit to peasant farmers who developed the crops in the first place.
29  Now governments are re-writing the EU's governing treaty and the draft version is considered by the EU's leaders in Brussels.
30  US officials fear that the treaty might undermine the commercial protection afforded to gene tech companies through the World Trade Organisation deal on intellectual property rights.