How to Use consulate in a Sentence

consulate

noun
  • The staff at the consulate had turned over, Cicilia and Tigor long gone.
    Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Sri and Elis said no one from the consulate contacted them in this capacity.
    Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The opposition on the Israeli right has left plans for the consulate in limbo.
    NBC News, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Years ago, the Jamaican consulate had an office on Albany Avenue that was open twice a month.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • During past visits, the mobile consulate has only operated for one day.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Additionally, at least 50 percent of each team’s roster must be composed of consulate staff.
    Lee Igel, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Asked about the consulate at a press conference, Bennett repeated Israel's position on Jerusalem.
    Tia Goldenberg, ajc, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the consulate in Munich was closed when the shooting occurred and that no consulate staff had been affected by the incident.
    Carlo Angerer, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • For folks abroad, those who made it inside the consulate offices by closing time would have 30 minutes to cast their vote.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 2 June 2024
  • The basic problem has been that to get an E-2 work visa the foreign investor has to go through an interview at a U.S. consulate abroad.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • With the high volume of trade and contacts between the two nations before the war in Ukraine, the consulate in St. Petersburg had been one of Finland’s busiest.
    Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 6 July 2023

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