the Foreign Service

noun

: a part of the U.S. State Department that hires people (such as diplomats) to represent the government in foreign countries

Examples of the Foreign Service in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Inside the Classroom After months of research, planning, and scheduling, Fick’s team launched the Cyberspace and Digital Policy Tradecraft course at the Foreign Service Institute with a test run in November 2022. —Eric Geller, WIRED, 2 July 2024

Palmer went to Yale, then worked in journalism, for a while, then joined the Foreign Service. —Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 May 2024

Despite serving in the Foreign Service as a diplomat and as an officer in the CIA, his first love was journalism, his wife said. —Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024

That helped launch me into a long and fortunate career in government, first in the Foreign Service and now at the CIA. —William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2024

At the same time, the people who stuck it out, the professionals, the Foreign Service officers and the civil service officials, they should be rewarded as well because that was not an easy time. —Hillary Rodham Clinton, Foreign Affairs, 23 Mar. 2021

If that wasn’t confusing enough, one day Stewart’s father got a letter from the State Department addressed to yet a third Herbert Block, who was in the Foreign Service. —John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023

Then joined the Foreign Service, which posted him to Paris. —Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 July 2023

In 1959, after two years in the Marine Corps, Mr. Carter gave up plans to go into the Foreign Service and returned to Greenville. —Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 12 May 2023