How to Use consul in a Sentence

consul

noun

• Conrad Mohr was the German consul in the city, and a friend of the kaiser.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2017
• The mansion was the residence of the French consul in Chicago in the 1960s.
  — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
• The Swiss consul told me that my position wasn’t so good.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 28 Mar. 2022
• Her mother served as the honorary consul of Panama in Guyana.
  — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• To his dismay, his first posting in the Foreign Service was as a vice consul in Saigon.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
• Two years ago, when Dondisch became consul, about 100 people came to the office each day.
  — Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2018
• In the winter of 1940, the U.S. consul in Italy ordered all Americans to return home.
  — National Geographic, 27 Apr. 2017
• Djukic lost his post in 2018 after about four years as consul.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 10 Jan. 2023
• The band said Sunday the Australian consul who came to see it in detention was not allowed to see the members.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
• It was sponsored by the honorary consul of the Republic of Senegal.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
• Abandoned soon after his death, the palace was unearthed in 1843 in modern-day Iraq by the French vice consul to Mosul.
  — Catherine Porter Dmitry Kostyukov, New York Times, 16 May 2024
• Germany and Austria announced the dismissal of one consul in Brazil.
  — ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022
• Kafie had served as honorary consul for Jordan in Honduras for more than three decades.
  — Will Fitzgibbon, ProPublica, 24 Jan. 2023
• Caligula’s proposal to make his horse a consul comes up, too.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• As the Napoleonic Wars raged across Europe, the French consul had become a conqueror, hungry for more lands.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• George Ayoub, a Glendale dentist who is also honorary consul of Lebanon, lost a close friend in the blast.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• The consul quickly spirited them out of New York aboard steamships bound for England.
  — John Harris, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2021
• Reuters fell for a fake news story about the firing of a Saudi general consul.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2018
• Next to the soccer players Mr. Berrettini looked like a consul.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 12 July 2021
• Benoît de Maillet, the French consul in Cairo, was the first European to delve beneath the bindings and take extensive notes.
  — National Geographic, 10 Dec. 2019
• In 1883 she was sold to the Italian consul in Khartoum who treated her humanely.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 20 Nov. 2023
• Marilyn Monroe dashes off a thank-you note to the German consul for a gift of champagne.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• The two consuls whom Sulla left in command of Rome clashed, and the Senate declared one of them a public enemy.
  — Scott Spillman, New Republic, 30 Aug. 2017
• Sam Shichijo, the honorary consul of Japan in Dallas, said his wife noted that after the shooting, bystanders in the crowd stood still.
  — James Bikales, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
• As the consul general in Los Angeles, what’s your role in dealing with these changes?
  — Grace Wyler, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
• The court also ruled that the Saudi consul-general in Istanbul at the time, Mohammed al-Otaibi, was not guilty.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• The migrants were discovered Monday evening in the outskirts of San Antonio and the Mexican consul was en route to the site.
  — Fox News, 29 June 2022
• The real-life Decius was a Roman consul who sacrificed himself to the gods for the sake of his embattled army.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• The vice consul didn’t explain why there was no check by the line on the form letter indicating that the review remained under way.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 26 May 2018
• In this version, Sharpless, the U.S. consul in Nagasaki, is bilingual.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024