How to Use diplomat in a Sentence

diplomat

noun

• He's a talented architect but a poor diplomat.
• The President will be meeting with foreign diplomats.
• The diplomat said that Qatar has been urging Hamas to free its hostages.
  — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
• The man had been described in the media as a Russian diplomat.
  — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 26 June 2023
• On the plane, a U.S. diplomat spoke over the public-address system.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
• Late last year, U.S. diplomats warned that the shipping attacks risked scuttling the process.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
• The two diplomats made no comments during a brief photo-op ahead of the meeting.
  — Vedika Sud, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
• The diplomat said Hamas leaders were stunned by the success of the operation.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• Aid workers, diplomats and civilians have been caught in the crossfire.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2023
• And that certainly is something the diplomats who are trying to cool things off are very aware of.
  — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2024
• There, diplomats will discuss whether and how to step up action on climate change.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• The United States and Germany are the main countries resisting, the diplomat said, taking turns as the lead voice of caution.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• Since the Taliban takeover, China is the most-prominent country to accept a diplomat from the group.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune Asia, 5 June 2024
• The diplomat said that Henry was attempting to make things better.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024
• The diplomat said the meeting Tuesday would be crucial in bridging the remaining gaps.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Feb. 2024
• His mother, the daughter of a diplomat, managed a household of eight children.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• Finding the hostages is one reason that Hamas is seeking a pause in fighting, the Middle Eastern diplomat said.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Boris Bondarev, a career Russian diplomat in Geneva, quit in May and denounced the war.
  — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
• So vaporous was this suggestion of a suggestion that the Australian diplomats thought little of it at the time.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 May 2023
• The vote had been expected to take place by early afternoon, but diplomats said it was pushed back because the U.S. asked for more time.
  — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2023
• There were audible gasps from people in the room, which included diplomats and world leaders from across the globe.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 11 July 2024
• Kuleba called for a moment of silence in honor of Ukrainians killed in the conflict, and most of the assembly diplomats rose to their feet.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• One Western diplomat said leadership changes should come with a clear road map for a two-state solution to the conflict.
  — Yasmeen Abutaleb, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
• The diplomats’ positions were the same: Wong couldn’t enter the consulate and couldn’t apply for asylum from outside the United States.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2023
• Kuleba raised the event in his meeting with Wang, according to a statement on the Ukrainian diplomat’s X account.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• White tie: These are the most formal weddings — think royal weddings and diplomat dinners — and are pretty rare to see IRL.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024
• Dressed in a black shirt and faded jeans and strapping on an electric guitar, the top US diplomat launched into Neil Young’s hit anthem.
  — TIME, 15 May 2024
• There was no plan or effort to help at-risk Afghans or plan for what to do with diplomats after a withdrawal happened, just a lack of planning.
  — CBS News, 2 July 2023
• The number of Russian diplomats in Hungary is nearly equal to the total in the other Visegrád countries combined.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Oct. 2024
• In response to Canada’s earlier allegations, India told Canada last year to remove 41 of its 62 diplomats in the country.
  — Rob Gillies, Aijaz Hussain, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024