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
  • Don’t expect the U.S. embassy or consulate near you to tell you what to do.
    Kimberly Dozier, Time, 20 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • That’s when a woman from a Guatemalan consulate told him there would be one more flight.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 11 June 2020
  • 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
  • Her travel was arranged by the U.S. consulate staff in Karachi.
    Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 11 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • In 2008, a Marshallese consulate opened just off of Springdale’s main street.
    Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • In 2019, a group of men dragged a refugee through the gates of the Chinese consulate in Manchester and assaulted him.
    Cora Engelbrecht, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Now America wants to open a consulate in Greenland for the first time since the second world war.
    The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Blinken did not give a timeline for reopening the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem.
    Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
  • 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
  • Turning to the Venezuelan consulate for help is not an option.
    Juan Carlos Chavez, Sun Sentinel, 21 May 2025
  • By that time, marchers had made it around Greenway Plaza and onto the steps of the building that houses the Israeli consulate.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 19 May 2021
  • 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 consulate did not say how often this type of crime has occurred or whether any suspects have been arrested.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
  • Many of the asylum-seekers had come from Venezuela, which does not maintain embassies and consulates in the U.S. due to poor diplomatic relations.
    Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025

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