How to Use strike a deal in a Sentence

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  • That said, there might be hope that the United States can step in and strike a deal for Griner’s release.
    — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • But the Cowboys were able to strike a deal that appeases both sides.
    — Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • But even that route is uncertain with time dwindling to strike a deal.
    — Stephen Groves and Lisa Mascaro, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But the sides haven’t been able to strike a deal in nine months of on-and-off talks, and Wilkins’ market has only increased over that time.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • If the two sides can’t strike a deal, the 23-year-old will become a restricted free agent next summer.
    — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Had Jackson had an agent who couldn’t strike a deal with the Ravens by now, chances are that agent would have been dumped for not getting the job done.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Time is short to strike a deal before a deadline as soon as June 1, when the Treasury says the government risks running out of cash to pay its bills.
    — Lisa Mascaro and Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2023
  • This time, the parties seem highly motivated to strike a deal.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2021
  • With the third and most vicious brother (Danny Huston) still at large, Winstone tries to strike a deal with his quarry.
    — and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
  • The seven states that depend on water from those reservoirs are still scrambling to strike a deal that will stop them from crashing.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The companies strike a deal with a renter’s landlord covering the deposit, then charge the renter a monthly fee instead.
    — Will Parker, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Employees at the company have authorized a work stoppage should the parties fail to strike a deal.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • As the ruling kept going in Dominion’s favor, its lawyers were surprised that Fox was not making more of an effort to strike a deal.
    — Katie Robertson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Still, smaller dealers may try to strike a deal to share representation.
    — Julia Halperin, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Its inability to strike a deal with Disney is nothing short of a betrayal of its promise.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Two industry giants collided in showdown that led to a blackout for millions of pay TV customers — but then still managed to strike a deal.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Pharmaceutical firms that refuse to strike a deal could face massive financial penalties based on their sales.
    — Tony Romm, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In a legal context, her words gave the jury a sense of why Mr. Trump might be motivated to strike a deal to keep her silent, and the stakes for him of not doing so only weeks prior to the 2016 presidential vote.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2024
  • That track record suggests Aiyuk remains poised to strike a deal close to perhaps $30 million annually, judging from the ballooning market rate.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
  • Set against the backdrop of commercial fishing, the story takes on primal stakes when desperate circumstances force the brothers to strike a deal with a violent Boston crime gang.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Fishermen went on strike for weeks this spring, and the provincial premier had to intervene to help strike a deal with processors, who only agreed to make their initial offer the minimum price.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • But McAlevey’s vision of a worker-led, militant union put her at odds with the national union’s leaders, who hoped that the union would strike a deal with hospital corporate leadership.
    — Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Now, the timeframe for Chinese and American regulators to strike a deal on audits is running perilously short.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 27 July 2022
  • Meanwhile, bipartisan negotiators in the Senate are struggling to strike a deal that might stem the crisis and overhaul immigration laws for the first time in nearly 40 years.
    — CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • In early December, when a Hong Kong court gave Evergrande one last chance to strike a deal, the company’s representatives largely fell silent.
    — Alice Huang, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • No date has been set for that gathering, since negotiators have yet to strike a deal on the two-year spending plan, but the legislature will need to pass a budget by July 1 to avoid a state government shutdown.
    — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
  • McCormick Place has yet to strike a deal with the city or the developers, and is something less than all in on repurposing any of its convention center facilities as a casino.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • When the duo reached an impasse, with Franklyn continuing to push for more money, Cooper contacted Portnoy independently to try to strike a deal.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
  • However, just days before, generative AI became the sticking point preventing both parties from being able to strike a deal.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The round-the-world trip was the product of six years of planning, development and testing, supported by grassroots donations when Rutan and his co-pilot, Jeana Yeager, his girlfriend at the time, could not strike a deal for a corporate sponsorship.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024

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