How to Use embassy in a Sentence

embassy

noun
  • Protesters marched outside the American embassy.
  • The discord has gotten so out of hand, the U.S. embassy in London even felt the need to step in.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2024
  • According to El País, the group had shot one embassy guard.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
  • This is not the first foreign embassy project for B.L. Harbert.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 16 Apr. 2023
  • In case of a disaster, local embassies know to alert and look for you.
    Hannah Sampson, Andrea Sachs and Sofia Andrade, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The group said the strikes were in response to the burning of a Koran in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm earlier this year.
    Jordan Robertson, Fortune, 28 June 2023
  • There were people at the local Russian embassy who could help guide the effort.
    Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Western embassies closed after the first day of fighting.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The embassy in Khartoum declined to say how many Americans were in the country.
    Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Taiwan’s de facto embassy in the United States wrote in a tweet on Monday.
    Reuters, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The embassy said in a statement to CBS News that no staff members were injured and the person who set himself on fire was not known to the embassy.
    Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Now, the focus is on the Middle East and how Iran will respond to last week’s deadly airstrike on its embassy complex in Syria.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Police at scene where a car crashed through a barrier near the Israeli embassy in Toyko today.
    NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Some embassies gave people a few hours to pick up passports before shredding them.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • Earlier this year, Navalny’s supporters in Berlin put up a replica of such a cell in front of the Russian embassy.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Apr. 2023
  • One of them was beaming a giant blue and yellow Ukrainian flag onto the embassy’s white facade.
    Michael Crowley, New York Times, 3 July 2023
  • The giraffe post has been liked nearly one million times since Feb. 2, much more than what the embassy’s Weibo posts usually get.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There were some protesters outside polling stations and Russian embassies across the globe on Sunday, the final day of the election.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Protesters near the Iranian embassy in Rome on the one-year anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Friedman played a crucial role in the establishment of the American embassy in Jerusalem.
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • In the second act, the party is stranded in a room at an embassy after a feast that has left them feeling full yet unsatisfied.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • He was given protection at the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
    Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The Chinese embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.
    Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The Saudi embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.
    Mark Mazzetti, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, the bodies of the deceased have been moved to Athens where the identification process will begin with the help of relevant embassies.
    Time, 15 June 2023
  • Representatives from the American embassy had made the 650-mile trip from Buenos Aires.
    John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Swedish embassy spokesman David Lunderquist confirmed that Sweden played a role in getting King released.
    Kevin Liptak, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In London, marchers will gather at Trafalgar Square before marching to the Chinese embassies, where a vigil will be held.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 3 June 2023
  • Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates reopened their embassies in Damascus.
    Sam Heller, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The participating countries opened embassies and flight paths, while Israeli tourists for the first time could travel to the shopping mecca of Dubai.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024

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