How to Use State Department in a Sentence

State Department

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• In response, the State Department vowed to hire more staff and get processing times back to normal by the end of the year.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
• Overnight, the State Department confirmed the death of 29 U.S. citizens in this conflict.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
• Fox News Digital has reached out to the State Department for comment.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Asked for the current list of countries, the agency referred the Monitor to the State Department, which declined to comment on the record.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2024
• The State Department of Health is offering Tetanus vaccines on site.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
• The State Department did not respond to requests for comment.
  — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 26 June 2024
• The State Department later tapped her as a women’s health envoy.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023
• The State Department did not return a request for comment.
  — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• The State Department authorized the transfer of 25 F-35A fighter jets and engines last month.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• The night before, the State Department also hosts a ceremony for the honorees.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 July 2024
• The State Department is warning Americans to leave Lebanon as the risk of a regional war increases.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2024
• The talks are not set to address broader political issues, the US State Department said.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• The State Department says the step will enable the U.S. to more effectively restrict the group's access to financial support.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
• The Idaho State Department of Agriculture did not respond to a request for comment.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
• It could have been prevented if the State Department did its job by law and executed the plan of evacuation.
  — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2024
• People renewing online do not need to mail their current passport to the State Department.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2024
• The State Department’s decision was, strangely, kept close.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2023
• The new regulations—the most sweeping in decades—also cut the length of export licenses from four years to one and give the State Department greater authority to block sales.
  — David Kocieniewski / Bloomberg, TIME, 26 Apr. 2024
• The State Department is urging Americans not to travel to Haiti amid fresh gang violence in the country, which declared a state of emergency last week.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
• Officials with the White House and the State Department have both declined to discuss the potential extradition.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 20 May 2024
• The wall leading to his desk, inside a warren of State Department corridors, is lined with photographs of Americans from his list.
  — Louise Radnofsky and Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
• The senior State Department official would not speculate what threshold of crisis would have to be met in Haiti for Blinken to turn to that authority.
  — Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
• Among the recent warnings: Ecuador got hit with a State Department advisory because of the risk of civil unrest, crime, and kidnapping.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• The State Department requires that employees sign their names to dissent cables, but the other two letters have no signatures.
  — Elliott Abrams, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
• Amid this tense situation, the State Department on Tuesday cleared the sale to Israel of dozens of fighter jets and other military equipment worth over $20 billion.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
• Wait times for passport applications and renewals returned to their normal 6-8 week time frame in December, the State Department said.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 13 June 2024
• The evacuation flight was confirmed by State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller during a press briefing.
  — Helena Skinner, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2024
• Rogers was kept in the dark about initiatives, such as the secret diplomacy that set up Nixon’s trip to China, and was obliged to plead for information about programs that in most administrations were the purview of the State Department.
  — Norman Kempster, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The novel initiative would be subsidized by U.S. State Department funds.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
• The State Department suggested travelers begin the process 6-9 months in advance of any travel and to check the validity of their passports frequently.
  — Joe Ruiz, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024