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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 bureau publicly released a video this year encouraging Russian diplomats who might oppose the war to be in touch.
  — Michael Crowley, New York Times, 3 July 2023
• But not far away, a U.S. diplomat has seized that role for himself with barbed and sometimes sarcastic criticism.
  — Peter Landers, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2023
• His actions as a statesman and diplomat have earned him the implacable contempt of many critics.
  — Armen Sarkissian, WSJ, 25 May 2023
• Franklin had journeyed to Paris as a diplomat, tasked with getting France to join America’s war for independence as an ally to the States.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2024
• The same might have been said of Duff Cooper, a British viscount, diplomat, politician, war hero, man-about-town—always good for a glass of port or an extramarital romp.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Russian President Vladimir Putin seems willing to break with agreements such as the grain deal, diplomats and analysts say.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 16 July 2023
• Arms have also been coming from Wagner forces in CAR, according to western diplomats and rebel forces in the country.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 10 July 2023
• My sense is that many seasoned professionals, journalists and, yes, diplomats just don’t get it.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
• Israel’s preparations for an invasion of that area come as diplomats raced to forestall it, with Ramadan set to begin around March 10.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• The vote has been stalled as diplomats negotiated changes in an attempt to prevent the United States from vetoing the measure a second time.
  — Julia Jester, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• And while China may not have altered its maps of the Middle East, its diplomats may well be looking at them and wondering if there is still room for balanced diplomacy.
  — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2023
• Critics, advocacy groups and even some leaders themselves said that the words of promise must be followed by deals hammered out by diplomats in the coming days.
  — Seth Borenstein and Jamey Keaten The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024