How to Use consulate in a Sentence

consulate

noun
  • The consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif could not be reached by phone.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021
  • In 2020, the UAE became the first Arab country to open a consulate there.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Itier was to meet some voters, and the car stopped in front of the French consulate.
    Fabrice Robinet, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • For me, the New York consulate’s email address is visaoffice.ny@gmail.com.
    Michelle Liu, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Last year, the United States opened a consulate in Nuuk, the capital, for the first time since the 1950s.
    New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • About 30 more followed in the next few days, from Kyiv and a consulate in Lviv, in western Ukraine.
    New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022
  • If Wong was hiding in the U.S. consulate, Beijing could close it down.
    Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • At the Santiago, Chile, consulate, the wait can take up to 886 days — 2½ years.
    Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The consulate also helped obtain the X-rays from the family.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The staff at the consulate had turned over, Cicilia and Tigor long gone.
    Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The workers are now under the care of the Mexican consulate.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • They were notified in a phone call from the consulate a few hours later.
    Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Venezuela’s consulates in the United States are shuttered.
    Christine Armario, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • When a child is born abroad, the birth has to be registered with a U.S. embassy or consulate, but that is hard to do when on the run from the law.
    New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
  • She’d been employed in the consulate section of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
    Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Embassies would be opened in Riyadh and Tehran and consulates in Jeddah and Mashhad.
    Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The journalist next to us, at the Israeli consulate in New York, was crying.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Global impact Berlin said that four of Russia’s five consulates in Germany must close by the end of the year.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • She had been ordered to fly to Ciudad Juárez for an interview with the U.S. consulate.
    Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The opposition on the Israeli right has left plans for the consulate in limbo.
    NBC News, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif in the north of the country continues to remain functional.
    Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz, 18 July 2021
  • The address of each consulate varies based on your location.
    Michelle Liu, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The people from the Polish consulate in Lviv, who had met us at the border and got us through, tell us not to film any Ukrainian soldiers.
    Waldemar Januszczak For The Times, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2022
  • What was a curious fact turned into a month of explaining records to the consulate.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Since then, foreign workers have had to go back to their home countries and get the extension stamped by a consulate there.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Officers responding to the scene found that the vehicle had come to a stop inside the lobby of the consulate.
    Adam Elmahrek, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • For translators who are stuck in Afghanistan, there is no way to process their visas since the U.S. consulate closed afer the withdrawal of troops in August 2021.
    Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Years ago, the Jamaican consulate had an office on Albany Avenue that was open twice a month.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • In Israel’s New York consulate, weapons procurement officers occupy two floors, processing hundreds of sales each year.
    Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Survivors were being accommodated in a hotel in Marsa Alam, where authorities were working with embassies and consulates to provide assistance and documentation.
    Reuters, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2024

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